Legitimate https://legitimate.net/ Legitimate: Recent articles en-us 20 Cook County sheriff’s deputy lived with man arrested on gun, drug charges, officials say Sean M. Dwyer was caught with more than 1.6 kilograms of cocaine last week, according to authorities, who did not release the deputy’s name. 22 Aug 2022 21:09 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/8/22/23317185/sean-dwyer-cook-county-sheriffs-deputy-gun-drug-charges-cocaine-dea https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/8/22/23317185/sean-dwyer-cook-county-sheriffs-deputy-gun-drug-charges-cocaine-dea Frank Main Suntimes Lightfoot: Chicago making progress on fighting crime despite continued downtown violence The mayor, in an interview Wednesday, credited a ‘multitiered’ strategy for a drop in murders and shootings and said the city needs to target late-hour bars where a lot of downtown violence is occurring. 03 Aug 2022 21:00 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2022/8/3/23290782/lightfoot-lori-chicago-violence-crime https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2022/8/3/23290782/lightfoot-lori-chicago-violence-crime Frank Main Suntimes Convicted Starved Rock killer’s lawyer: DNA test casts doubt on Chester Weger’s conviction Attorney Andrew Hale told a LaSalle County judge that a hair found on the glove of one of the three women killed at Starved Rock State Park in 1960 fits the profile of an unidentified man, saying, “For sure, it exonerates him.” 02 Aug 2022 13:53 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/8/2/23288581/starved-rock-killer-chester-weger-dna-andrew-hale https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/8/2/23288581/starved-rock-killer-chester-weger-dna-andrew-hale Frank Main Suntimes Pedro Flores, star witness against El Chapo, tells judge feds gave his wife immunity against prosecution The onetime Chicago cocaine kingpin’s wife Vivianna Lopez and his brother’s wife Valerie Gaytan are fighting money-laundering charges. Flores says immunity for them was part of the deal he and his twin brother Margarito Flores, who both grew up in Little Village, were given. 25 Jul 2022 17:40 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/25/23277165/chapo-pedro-flores-margarito-vivianna-lopez-valerie-gaytan-immunity-prosecution-sinaloa-cartel-drugs https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/25/23277165/chapo-pedro-flores-margarito-vivianna-lopez-valerie-gaytan-immunity-prosecution-sinaloa-cartel-drugs Frank Main Suntimes Highland Park parade mass murder suspect Robert E. Crimo III through people who knew him, police reports He grew up in a home where his parents regularly called the police on each other, and his mother left him unattended in a car on a hot August day before he was 2. 09 Jul 2022 11:00 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/9/23201114/highland-park-parade-mass-shooting-robert-crimo-ethan-absler-denise-pesina-jeremy-cahnmann https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/9/23201114/highland-park-parade-mass-shooting-robert-crimo-ethan-absler-denise-pesina-jeremy-cahnmann Frank Main Suntimes Highland Park parade massacre gun was a Smith & Wesson M&P15 semiautomatic rifle The initials in the name of the rifle are for “military” and “police.” A prosecutor identified the make and model at a hearing Wednesday for murder suspect Robert E. Crimo III. 06 Jul 2022 19:02 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/6/23197100/highland-park-mass-shooting-gun-mith-wesson-mp15-semiautomatic-rifle-fourth-july-parade-robert-crimo https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/6/23197100/highland-park-mass-shooting-gun-mith-wesson-mp15-semiautomatic-rifle-fourth-july-parade-robert-crimo Frank Main Suntimes Highland Park Fourth of July massacre suspect believed to have been turned away from synagogue A Jewish security group says that, after seeing photos of Robert E. “Bobby” Crimo III, a Highland Park rabbi “recognized him” as the man turned away from a Passover service at his synagogue in April. 05 Jul 2022 17:45 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/5/23195435/highland-park-mass-shooting-fourth-july-parade-robert-crimo-synagogue-chabad-michael-masters https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/5/23195435/highland-park-mass-shooting-fourth-july-parade-robert-crimo-synagogue-chabad-michael-masters Frank Main Suntimes Highland Park massacre gun was bought legally in Illinois, authorities say Robert Crimo III bought the gun, officials said Tuesday. They didn’t provide details of where and when the gun was bought or the make and model of the ‘high-powered rifle.’ 05 Jul 2022 16:00 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/5/23195378/highland-park-mass-shooting-fourth-july-parade-gun-robert-crimo-rifle https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/5/23195378/highland-park-mass-shooting-fourth-july-parade-gun-robert-crimo-rifle Frank Main Suntimes Judge looks to Supreme Court gun ruling as he weighs whether to shoot down Chicago ban on laser sights U.S. District Judge Robert Dow Jr. has asked lawyers in a Chicago gun-rights suit to weigh in on whether Justice Clarence Thomas’s majority opinion affects the city’s ban. 01 Jul 2022 11:30 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/1/23187900/laser-gun-sights-clarence-thomas-second-amendment-arms-robert-dow-supreme-court-chicago https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/1/23187900/laser-gun-sights-clarence-thomas-second-amendment-arms-robert-dow-supreme-court-chicago Frank Main Suntimes More helicopters eyed as a tool for Chicago police to fight carjackings, other crimes Chicago police officials say they ‘anticipate’ acquiring two helicopters and might use private donations to help pay for them. First Deputy Supt. Eric Carter said it would be ‘ideal’ to have a much larger fleet, like Los Angeles has. 14 Jun 2022 16:00 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/6/14/23162822/helicopters-chicago-police-department-carjackings-pursuits https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/6/14/23162822/helicopters-chicago-police-department-carjackings-pursuits Frank Main Suntimes ‘It’s going to save lives’: Chicago Police Department expands eligibility for drug users to get treatment instead of jail The drug diversion program, the largest of its kind in the country, was piloted on the West Side in 2018 and expanded citywide late last year. 06 Jun 2022 21:49 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2022/6/6/23156803/drug-diversion-chicago-police-department-roseanne-ander-matt-richards-university-chicago-crime-lab https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2022/6/6/23156803/drug-diversion-chicago-police-department-roseanne-ander-matt-richards-university-chicago-crime-lab Frank Main Suntimes Drug cartel leader ‘El Tomate’ extradited from Mexico, faces federal charges in Chicago Adan Casarrubias Salgado — also known as “Tomatito,” “Star” and “Silver” — is charged with conspiracy, drug trafficking and money laundering. 27 May 2022 22:47 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/5/27/23145088/drug-cartel-leader-el-tomate-extradited-from-mexico-faces-federal-charges-in-chicago https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/5/27/23145088/drug-cartel-leader-el-tomate-extradited-from-mexico-faces-federal-charges-in-chicago Frank Main Suntimes 2 months after being gutted over accusations of being soft on crime, parole board frees 2 men convicted of Chicago-area killings In March, the Illinois Senate rejected the appointments of two interim board members. A third quit rather than face a vote. With 2 new members, the board returned Thursday. 26 May 2022 22:33 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/5/26/23143558/parole-illinois-prisoner-review-board-patrick-inocencio-richard-west-chicago-area-killings https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/5/26/23143558/parole-illinois-prisoner-review-board-patrick-inocencio-richard-west-chicago-area-killings Frank Main Suntimes Convicted Starved Rock killer’s lawyer: ‘Smoking gun’ police report clears him A lawyer for Chester Weger — paroled in 2020 and trying to prove his innocence — says a 1960 report of an operator overhearing a pay phone call shows two brothers were involved in a coverup. 20 May 2022 10:30 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/5/20/23070441/starved-rock-killer-chester-weger-smoking-gun-police-report https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/5/20/23070441/starved-rock-killer-chester-weger-smoking-gun-police-report Frank Main Suntimes With Cook County probation units disbanded, tens of thousands of random curfew checks ended Supporters of doing away with so-called intensive probation units say it was a ‘gotcha’ system that didn’t reduce crime. Others say it helped get guns and drugs off the streets. 13 May 2022 10:30 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/5/13/23012053/curfew-checks-intensive-probation-timothy-evans-cook-county-felons-criminal-justice https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/5/13/23012053/curfew-checks-intensive-probation-timothy-evans-cook-county-felons-criminal-justice Frank Main Suntimes Billionaire laments Chicago violence, donates $25 million to train leaders of police departments here and across country Ken Griffin, founder of Citadel, and businessman Michael Sacks gave seed money for two academies at the University of Chicago to train police leaders and people who run violence-interruption groups. 10 May 2022 17:29 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/5/10/23065275/ken-griffin-donation-police-department-leadership-training-university-chicago-michael-sacks https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/5/10/23065275/ken-griffin-donation-police-department-leadership-training-university-chicago-michael-sacks Frank Main Suntimes Tom Dart defies judge’s order, lets gun defendant get 2-day weekly furlough that the law now mandates The case highlights a controversial provision of a sweeping criminal justice reform, the SAFE-T Act, requiring furloughs for people on home confinement while awaiting trial. 06 May 2022 22:25 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/5/6/23060135/tom-dart-edward-maloney-cook-county-judge-safet-act-electronic-monitoring-furlough-royal-brown https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/5/6/23060135/tom-dart-edward-maloney-cook-county-judge-safet-act-electronic-monitoring-furlough-royal-brown Frank Main Suntimes Trump’s Operation Legend’s legacy: 2 years later, Chicago gun defendants getting stiff sentences In cases the Sun-Times reviewed from the 2020 federal crackdown, the average sentence of nearly four years was far higher than typically seen in Cook County’s courts. 29 Apr 2022 22:00 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/4/29/23043338/trump-operation-legend-chicago-gun-cases-sentences https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/4/29/23043338/trump-operation-legend-chicago-gun-cases-sentences Frank Main Suntimes Cocaine seizures soar in Chicago, surrounding states, as DEA ‘snow’ forecast comes true Heroin and marijuana have long been Mexican cartels’ big moneymakers in Chicago. But DEA cocaine seizures rose 50% in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana in the year ending Sept. 30 and keep rising in the Chicago area. 22 Apr 2022 10:35 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/4/22/23017246/cocaine-seizures-dea-chicago-drug-enforcement-administration-cartels-illinois-wisconsin-indiana https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/4/22/23017246/cocaine-seizures-dea-chicago-drug-enforcement-administration-cartels-illinois-wisconsin-indiana Frank Main Suntimes Washington group blames Illinois prison population’s nearly fourfold rise since 1970s on ‘extreme’ sentencing laws Families for Justice Reform is calling for a series of changes, including repealing mandatory sentences. But passing such reforms in Illinois will be tough this year. 21 Apr 2022 13:00 UTC https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2022/4/21/23032509/illinois-prisons-families-justice-reform-sentencing-laws https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2022/4/21/23032509/illinois-prisons-families-justice-reform-sentencing-laws Frank Main Suntimes