Lawyers For Joliet Woman in Teen Sex Case Still Waiting on FBI Reports

The FBI and Chicago police have not responded to subpoenas for evidence in the Margarita Hernandez sex case.

Lawyers for the Joliet woman charged with setting up a sex date with a teenage boy are still waiting on the FBI and Chicago police to hand over reports. The attorneys for Margarita Hernandez subpoenaed the reports but have yet to receive them. The lawyers, Steve Landis and Dan Locallo, also submitted a motion Friday asking for evidence related to the cell phones Hernandez and the teen allegedly used to send messages prior to the tryst. Hernandez is free on bond. She faces up to 21 years in prison for allegedly having sex with the teen after he traveled to her home from Chicago in July. The boy's mother went to the Chicago police and accused Hernandez of having sex with her son. The Chicago police passed the case off to the Joliet police …

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Lawyer For Joliet Woman Tied to Teenage Sex Romp Battling For Evidence

The judge in 32-year-old Margarita Hernandez's teenage sex case is going to review some of the alleged evidence against her and then decide if her lawyer can have it.

The feds, the Chicago cops, the Joliet Police Department and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services all probed the alleged teenage sexcapades of 32-year-old Margarita Hernandez, and the Joliet woman's lawyer wants to see what they supposedly have on her. "When I don't see stuff done as a matter of routine protocol, I get very suspicious," attorney Steve Landis said during a Friday morning hearing in Will County court. But Assistant State's Attorney Sara Shutts told Judge Edward Burmila that Landis is looking for stuff she doesn't possess. Landis countered that once Shutts' office decided to prosecute Hernandez, they were responsible for turning all evidence over to him. Landis—and the Joliet police—have said the case …

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Plainfield's Crime Rate: How Does it Compare with Neighboring Towns?

Plainfield's 2011 crimes and crime rate compared with those of Naperville, Romeoville, Bolingbrook, Lemont, Woodridge and Joliet.

Plainfield’s crime rate has stayed about the same Plainfield's overall crime rate stayed pretty much the same from 2010, when it was at 13.8, to 2011, when it dropped slightly to 13. The crime rate is the number of violent crimes that occur per 1,000 residents and is calculated by dividing the village’s total population by number of violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery, assault), property crimes (burglary, larceny, car theft) and arson. The numbers below are from the FBI's recently released its 2011 Uniform Crime Report, which compiles information from local law enforcement about violent crimes and property crimes in their communities. READ: LOOK UP CRIME STATS IN PLAINFIELD The FBI offers these words of caution to note when comparing …

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Feds & State Search For Stacy Peterson, But Where's Linda Fellenbaum?

The FBI and Illinois State Police have spent several days in Hammel Woods looking for Stacy Peterson while missing mom Linda Fellenbaum has been gone for more than two weeks.

Search For Stacy Peterson Day 3: FBI & ISP & A Dog

The FBI and the Illinois State Police spent a third straight day looking for Stacy Peterson in Shorewood's Hammel Woods Wednesday.

The search for Stacy Peterson in Shorewood's Hammel Woods entered its third day as federal agents and state troopers used a dog to hunt for the missing mother. The brown and white dog led a group of a half dozen FBI agents and state troopers—some armed with shovels—through the Shorewood park. The search party headed in the direction of the Hammel Woods dog park off Black Road. A state police source said on Monday that the search effort was nothing more than a routine operation. The agency conducts such searches periodically, the source said, and there was no tip or clue that prompted this week's endeavor. But when FBI agents and troopers returned for a second day Tuesday, and then once again today, some close to the case were wondering if …

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Feds & State Search For Stacy Peterson, But Where's Linda Fellenbaum?

The FBI and Illinois State Police have spent two days in Hammel Woods looking for Stacy Peterson while missing mom Linda Fellenbaum has been gone for more than two weeks.

While FBI agents and state troopers spent a second straight day scouring Hammel Woods for some sign of missing mom Stacy Peterson, there was no one to be found in a Joliet cul-de-sac just six miles away, the one where another mother was supposedly seen running off barefoot, never to be seen again. That mother, Linda Fellenbaum, 33, disappeared Oct. 21, leaving her cell phone, shoes and Toyota Camry at the home of the Joliet man she moved in with only two months before. Fellenbaum and her Joliet boyfriend, Donald Wolak, 40, had met on the Internet, police said, and their short relationship was made out to be a stormy one. Wolak told police Fellenbaum took off on him five days before disappeared for good. And when she absconded on Oct. 16, …

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12:06 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013

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State Cops & FBI Searching For Stacy Peterson in Hammel Woods

A helicopter, police dogs, state cops and federal agents were searching for missing mom Stacy Peterson in Hammel Woods Monday.

Federal agents and state cops searched through Hammel Woods forest preserve in Shorewood Monday looking for signs of missing mom Stacy Peterson. READ MORE:  A state police source confirmed that the operation—which included at least one helicopter and police dogs—was part of the search effort for the Bolingbrook mother, who disappeared in October 2007. Weeks after Stacy vanished, state police officials named her husband, Drew Peterson, 58, as the sole suspect in the investigation the then-23-year-old's disappearance. Peterson has never been charged with harming Stacy, but was convicted in September of murdering his previous wife, Kathleen Savio. Savio, the third of Peterson's four wives, was found drowned in her dry bathtub in March 2004. …

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9:12 pm on Sunday, November 11, 2012

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Photo of Suspected Bank Robber Released

The FBI description of the man said witnessed described him as smelling of alcohol; a reward is being offered for his capture.

The FBI has issued this photo of the man suspected of robbing Midland States Bank in Joliet Monday afternoon. In the description that's included on the agency's bandittrackerchicago.com Web site, the man is described as being white or Hispanic, standing 5-foot-six and weighing 190 pounds. It was noted that he "smelled like alcohol." He has "grey 'greasy' longer hair, combed straight back, brown mustache and goatee with touches of grey," the description said. The suspect is accused of coming into the 1540 Route 59 bank at about 3 p.m. and handing a teller a note demanding that she place all of her money into a bag, according to police reports. He's believed to have netted between $2,000 and $3,000 before fleeing on foot to what is believed …

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Robber Scores $2,000 to $3,000 in Bank Heist

The suspect used a note to demand cash and then fled on foot, likely to a waiting vehicle.

A short, stocky man armed with a note demanding money made off with somewhere between $2,000 and $3,000 Monday from from Midland States Bank on Route 59 Monday. The robbery took place shortly before 3 p.m. when the suspect entered the bank, headed to one of the tellers and handed over a note that read, "Give me the money and no one will get hurt," Joliet Police Chief Michael Trafton said. The teller complied, depositing the cash into a bag. The man then fled west on foot, likely to a waiting car, Trafton said. A canvass of the area was conducted but did not lead to the suspect, he said. However, video cameras in the bank at 1540 Route 59, near Theodore Street, did capture a "very good surveillance photo" that may be released Tuesday by the…

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