Sauk Village News

FRIDAY, FEB. 3 Hiding With a Cocaine Pipe? Matthew Jaquest, 18, who is homeless and from New Lenox, was arrested and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia after police found him in an area known for a "high number of narcotic complaints and arrests," according to the report.

Two weeks after some Sauk Village trustees tried to lock the new police chief out of the police station, the village board voted Monday night to pay him a $75,000 salary.

Four men are dead after a wrong-way driver crashed with another vehicle on Interstate 80 early Monday near Hazel Crest, Illinois State Police said.

THURSDAY, JAN. 26 Domestic Battery Tracy T. Walker, 39, of the 0-100 block of Candlelight Drive in Sauk Village, was charged with domestic battery.

Marcus Mireles, 19, and Abel Galindo, 18, were found shot to death in a vacant Sauk Village home the evening of Dec.

During Robert Fox's first two months as Sauk Village police chief, trustees refused to ratify his contract, then tried to halt payment of his salary and oust him from his job.

FRIDAY, JAN. 20 Stolen Steaks Pamela D. Davis, 38, of the first block of Olympia Village, was arrested and charged with retail theft after an employee at Food 4 Less saw her attempting to leave the store with items she had not paid for, including two beef steaks and three strip steaks, according to the report.

SAUK VILLAGE, Ill. - The mayor and police chief in Sauk Village were in court Tuesday, trying to get a judge to overturn a law passed by the village board that led to the police chief getting locked out of the station a day earlier.

TUESDAY, JAN. 17 Suspended Carey A Williams, 34, of the 400 block of West 15thA Place in Chicago Heights, was arrested at the 2600 block of Chicago Road and charged with driving on a suspendedA licenseA and having a defective windshield.

Turmoil over the Sauk Village police chief's employment status boiled over into a shouting match at the police department Monday afternoon as two village trustees went to the police station to ask Chief Robert Fox to leave the building.

A traffic stop turned violent when a Sauk Village woman attacked a Chicago Heights police officer, according to a police report.

A Cook County jury convicted a Chicago man today in the 2008 killing of a 10-year-old girl who was caught in a gang shooting while she tied the shoe of her blind sister.