Chicagoist Weekend Blotter
By Prescott Carlson in News on Feb 20, 2011 9:00PM
- A Highland Park man has been arrested in Romania and accused of selling drugs and weapons to support terrorist operations by the Taliban.
- A Valparaiso man convicted of possessing child pornography is balking at a $500,000 fine levied against him.
- A man accused of driving drunk, which resulted in a crash killing his girlfriend's 5-year-old son has come up with a unique defense: a police officer made him do it.
- A former city inspector has pleaded guilty to extorting store owners selling contraband cigarettes.
- The body of a 3-year-old found in 2005 in DuPage County has finally been identified.
- The Illinois smoking ban may have stopped a Tinley Park burglary.
- Police in Fox River Grove are on the hunt for a woman who robbed a tanning salon while wearing a pig mask.