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Original Article08/28/2013SPRINGFIELD - A former Illinois Department of Corrections guard has been sentenced to more than 43 years in prison for distributing and possessing child pornography and sexually exploiting a minor. Federal prosecutors say...

A former Canton, Missouri police officer will spend nearly the next year in jail for sex crimes against a minor. Jamie Bell, 25, pleaded guilty last August to a charge of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a 16-year-old minor. Tuesday a judge sentenced him to 360 days in the Adams County Jail and 36 months probation for the crime. Bell was arrested February 2012 for the alleged abuse. Bell has been free on bond since March.

CHICAGO (CN) - Chicago police officers sodomized a man with a gun, "laugh(ing) hysterically," until he agreed to buy drugs for the cops in a sting, the man claims in court. Angel Perez sued Chicago and its police Officer Jorge L. Lopez in Federal Court. Perez was working as a delivery driver on Oct. 20, 2012, when cops in an unmarked car pulled him over, handcuffed him and took him to the Harrison Street Police Station, he says in the complaint. There, "Two officers began assaulting the plaintiff with questions regarding robberies and drug dealers in the Taylor Street area," the complaint states. "Plaintiff responded that he did not know anything about robberies or drug dealings in the Taylor Street area and again and repeatedly requested that the officers call his lawyer. Plaintiff's lawyer was never contacted and the questioning continued. The officers were particularly interested in why the plaintiff had the telephone number of an individual by the name of 'Dwayne' in his telephone."

Robert Buchanan Original Article06/20/2013CHICAGO - A former Cook County corrections officer has been sentenced to six years in prison.Robert Buchanan was found guilty of criminal sexual assault against a 10-year-old girl in south suburban Harv...

Original Article11/27/2013By Dan Hinkel A 12-year-old girl got a series of text messages this summer from her mother's boyfriend, Woodstock police Sgt. Charles "Chip" Amati, according to copies of the messages obtained by the Tribune. One message,...

Michael Collins Original Article10/09/2013By ELIZABETH DONALDEDWARDSVILLE - Former police officer Michael Collins will not draw a pension from the Edwardsville Police Pension fund. Collins pleaded guilty to a felony count of unauthorized video ...

Isaac Martinez Original Article10/11/2013MORRIS - Police say an Indiana State Police Trooper has been arrested after allegations he engaged in sex with a 14-year-old. State police say an anonymous complaint was made on August 28, 2013. At the c...

Keith Farnham Original Article03/21/2014By Ray Long and Maura ZurickSPRINGFIELD - Federal agents sought evidence of child pornography last week when they seized computers from the Elgin district office of former state Rep. Keith Farnham, who re...