Thursday, January 17, 2013
The Homer Glen wife of a notorious mobster doing 62 years in Leavenworth filed for divorce at the Joliet courthouse.
Sixty-two years must have been just too long for the Homer Glen wife of a mobster sent to Leavenworth to wait. Barbara Calabrese, the wife of Anthony "Tough Tony" Calabrese, filed for divorce from the mob enforcer and suspected hitman at the Joliet courthouse last week. Barbara Calabrese, 53, gave as the grounds for divorce from her 52-year-old husband that he has a "conviction of a felony or other infamous crime," according to her petition. Anthony Calabrese has more than one infamous crime—he was convicted of armed robberies in Morton Grove, Maywood and Lockport. Those cases landed him in Leavenworth until July 2061, according to the Bureau of Prison's website. Before that, he got seven years for a 2002 conspiracy to commit extortion …
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Judge Edward Burmilla ruled that several allegations, including one in which Peterson allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill his third wife, cannot be brought up in the trial.
Check out our Storify feature to see what people are saying about the Drew Peterson trial around the web. Prosecutors lost out on some key evidence they want to use in their bid to convict disgraced Bolingbrook cop Drew Peterson on charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Judge Edward Burmila ruled Tuesday—the trial's first day—that Peterson's attorneys won't have to defend him against allegations he offered a co-worker $25,000 to find a hit man to kill Savio, that he broke into the house Savio was living in by cutting a hole in a wall, or that he threw her to the ground and held her face down in the grass until the police arrived during a dispute in 2002. Prosecutors failed to notify Peterson's defense team that they planned …
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Seven men and five women have been chosen as jurors for the trial set to start Tuesday.
The final five jurors and four alternate jurors were picked for Drew Peterson's much anticipated murder trial, and opening statements are expected to be heard Tuesday. Attorney Joel Brodsky said he will be the one handling opening statements for the defense and revealed his plan to tell "the story of Drew Peterson, from beginning to end." And when Brodsky is done with that story, said defense attorney Steve Greenberg, the jury will be convinced that Peterson did not murder his third wife, Kathleen Savio, by hitting her in the head and drowning her in a bathtub. "There's going to be no question she slipped in the tub and Drew was home when it happened," said Greenberg, who also scoffed at the idea that fresh bruises were discovered on Savio…
Monday, July 23, 2012
Eight jurors were chosen in Drew Peterson's trial for the alleged murder of his third wife Kathleen Savio.
Will County Judge Edward Burmila held a marathon jury selection session Monday and empaneled eight jurors for the Drew Peterson murder trial. It was the very first day of jury selection and Burmila kept 31 of 40 prospective jurors for nearly 12 hours—past 9 p.m. Eight more people are needed for the 12-person jury and the four alternates. Peterson, who appeared in court in a gray jacket, dark pants, a new haircut—and without his trademark mustache—stands accused of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Savio was found drowned in a dry bathtub in March 2004. Depsite the tumultuous, occasionnally violent divorce she was going through with Peterson, and the strange circumstances of her death, the Illinois State Police quickly dismissed her…
Patch will cover the Drew Peterson murder trial gavel-to-gavel with live updates, breaking news and video.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Brent C. Faulk, 27, was charged with unauthorized video recording after police said he planted a video camera in a coffee cup at the Lemont Starbucks on May 15. He was freed on $2,000 bond.
A Texas man accused of placing a video camera in the women's bathroom at the Lemont Starbucks with intent to sell the images on the Internet was freed on $2,000 bond Wednesday. Brent C. Faulk, 27, of the 14600 block of Woodson Park Road in Houston, TX, was arrested by Lemont police Tuesday, and was charged with felony unlawful video recording, according to Chief Kevin Shaughnessy. The incident reportedly happened May 15 at Starbucks, 1243 State St., when an employee found a coffee cup with the camera in it while she was cleaning the bathroom, prosecutors said. When the employee took the cup to her co-workers, Faulk reportedly approached her nervously, telling her he had made a "stupid mistake." Prosecutors said Faulk then told her that he …
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
A Lemont man facing an aggravated battery case in connection with a June 2011 road rage incident saw the charges upped to murder after his alleged victim died.
Christopher Yeoman was looking at nothing more than a misdemeanor battery case when the Romeoville police first arrested him in connection with punching a man at a stop light in June 2011. But as the health of Yeoman's alleged victim deteriorated, the charges were boosted to felony aggravated battery of a senior citizen. Then the man Yeoman allegedly punched, 64-year-old Frank Egas of Romeoville, died in a Lake County nursing home in September, and Yeoman is now up on a second-degree murder case. Yeoman, 40, of Lemont was arraigned on the new charges Tuesday morning in Will County court. The Lake County Coroner determined that Egas succumbed to injuries he suffered in the June 2011 incident, said Assistant State's Attorney Chris Koch. …
Monday, May 7, 2012
One way or the other, whether he's going to prison or back home, it looks like Drew Peterson won't mark a fourth year in the Will County jail.
Three years ago today, a small army of police descended on Drew Peterson as he drove away from his Bolingbrook home, and a small army of media was there to record it. Three years later, the press is back, as the attention-starved Peterson was recently in court for the first time in nearly a year and a half. Peterson may have appreciated the coverage, but unfortunately for him, the disgraced former cop was still stuck in jail waiting on his murder trial to finally start. The good news for Peterson, 58, is he likely won’t be spending another year in segregation in the Will County jail. His trial on charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio, is all but certain to begin before the year is out, ending a lengthy legal saga of appeals …
Monday, June 27, 2011
Former Illinois governor convicted Monday on 17 of 20 charges, including trying to bargain off President Barack Obama's old Senate seat.
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted by a federal jury Monday on 17 counts of corruption, including trying to sell or trade the Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama. Blagojevich, who had faced 20 corruption charges in his retrial, was convicted on 11 Senate seat charges, according to the Huffington Post. He was also found guilty of attempting to shake down executives for campaign donations. The verdicts were delivered after nine days of deliberation. The jury acquitted Blagojevich on one county of bribery and deadlocked on two counts of attempted extortion. Arriving in court Monday, Blagojevich expressed trepidation. "My hands are shaking, my knees are weak; I can't seem to stand on my own two feet," Blagojevich …
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