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DAVID SHELDON WELLS worked as an investment advisor in the Chicago branch of a subsidiary of a Midwestern bank.

In 2020, QUINCY J. ARNOLD illegally possessed a loaded semiautomatic handgun, cocaine, and heroin in Bellwood, Ill.

The village of Hinsdale, Ill., agreed to pay $800,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that the village violated the Fair Housing Act.

THOMAS V. GIRARDI and DAVID R. LIRA, who worked for the law firm Girardi Keese, are charged with wire fraud and contempt of court. 

LOGAN SQUARE ALUMINUM SUPPLY INC. will pay a $400,000 penalty and perform $2 million of lead-based paint abatement work in lower-income properties.

TERCALO E. THOMAS, of Park Forest, Ill., is charged with production of child pornography and possession of an electronic device containing child pornography.

JI CHAOQUN worked at the direction of intelligence officers in the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security, a department of the Ministry of State Security for the PRC.

“Had the officers not been so experienced or skilled, the struggle could have resulted in much greater harm to themselves or defendant," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles W. Mulaney.

BRANDON L. DISHMAN was apprehended by Rockford Police after tossing a loaded gun onto the front yard of a residence.

RICKY GREEN, 28, of Chicago, illegally possessed the gun on the night of May 31, 2020, in the Lake View neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side.

KIMBERLY RAY-DUNCAN allegedly engaged in fraud related to the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (EIDL), and the Illinois Back to Business Grant Program.

Phoenix Police Department Patrol Officer ANTOINE LARRY and Sergeant JARRETT SNOWDEN allegedly conspired to steal cash, drugs, and other items.

PATRICK JOHNSON, 27, of Chicago, is charged with one count of murder in aid of racketeering. 

The indictment in U.S. District Court in Chicago accuses MICHAEL MAURELLO of fraudulently obtaining the museum funds from 2007 to 2020

MARCUS CLAY, of Rockford, pleaded guilty to a charge of illegal firearm possession.  As a previously convicted felon, Clay was prohibited by federal law from possessing firearms. 

WILLIE GLENN, 25, of Chicago, illegally possessed a .40-caliber handgun equipped with a conversion device known as a “Glock switch” or “auto sear."

DENNIS W. HAGGERTY, JR., of Burr Ridge, Ill., pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal wire fraud and money laundering charges.

“A fundamental duty of our government is to keep people safe, and we are using every available law enforcement tool to do that,” said U.S. Attorney John Lausch.

JEREMY INGRAM, of Chicago, illegally possessed the gun and drugs on July 11, 2019, on Chicago’s West Side.