Crime & Safety

Joliet Reporter's Fed Child Porn Case: Court Supervision

A Joliet reporter's federal child pornography case was just one of the things going on this week.

By Joseph Hosey

The 77-year-old boyfriend of a 33-year-old woman charged with setting up and indulging in a sex date with a 15-year-old boy caught a federal child pornography case last week.


John Gabriel, the live-in lover of Margarita Hernandez, was taken into custody at the couple's Joliet home.

Hernandez was free on bond at the time of Gabriel's arrest.

Here's what else was going on in court last week:

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