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Oak Forest resident, Jason Akai, arrested in 2019 and indicted on more than 20 felony charges surrounding child pornography and criminal sexual assault of a child pleaded guilty last month, according to court records. Akai, 47, was charged with 23 criminal felony counts that included predatory criminal sexual assault and child pornography. All but two charges leveled against Akai were […]
Robbery
Orlando Talavera, a 41-year old pizza delivery driver was fatally shot in an armed robbery in the Chica-go Gresham neighborhood, on Friday, July 21. Talavera, who worked for Barraco’s Pizza in Ever-green Park, was shot inside a vehicle around 2:24 a.m. Friday in an alley in the 7800 block of South Laflin Street, according to Chica-go Police. The victim suffered […]
Murder
Two men have been found guilty and convicted, in the 2020 slaying of a retired Chicago Fire Lieutenant during a carjacking attempt. On June 21, two separate juries found Devin Barron of Lynwood, and Jaylen Saulsberry of Chicago Heights, guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting of retired Lt. Dwain Williams, who Cook County prosecutors said was confronted at gunpoint […]