Tom Schuba

Watchdogs reporter/assistant editor
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Tom Schuba is a reporter and editor focused on criminal justice issues, and he previously covered the legalization of marijuana across Illinois. He has earned a National Headliner Award for a series of stories investigating the state’s troubled cannabis testing regulations, among other prizes for his reporting.

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Daniel Alvarado, an avowed Two-Six gang member, allegedly shot and killed Moises Suarez on July 5 in Little Village while on electronic monitoring anklet, prosecutors said Friday. Prosecutors opposed his being released in a March gun case.
The settlements would broadside an already severely cash-strapped City Hall, which ended last year with a zero balance in its operating checkbook.
La familia solicita que la Policía Estatal de Illinois se encargue de la investigación, ya que su abogado afirma que la versión del Departamento de Policía de Chicago no tiene credibilidad.
It happened outside a restaurant as people were leaving an album release party for Chicago rapper Mello Buckzz. Another mass shooting happened at a club that operated from the same address in 2022.
The family is asking the Illinois State Police to take over the investigation as their attorney says the Chicago Police Department’s story of what happened doesn’t “pass the smell test.”
Officer Carlos A. Baker has had more than a dozen complaints against him, records show.
Current and former Chicago police officers once saddled with the grisly job of “body snatchers” question whether a single funeral home can handle the citywide task.
A la oficial Krystal Rivera, veterana de cuatro años de la Policía de Chicago, su compañero oficial le disparó y la asesinó accidentalmente durante una persecución a pie el 5 de junio que terminó en un apartamento de Chatham. Jaylin Arnold, de 27 años de edad, es ahora el segundo delincuente que enfrenta cargos por armas y drogas
Officer Krystal Rivera, a four-year veteran of the CPD, was unintentionally shot and killed by her partner during a foot chase June 5 that ended in a Chatham apartment. Jaylin Arnold, 27, is now the second felon facing gun and drug charges.
The police officer told the FBI he left guns at the Chicago home of Jawad Fakroune, and they were later seized during a raid of Fakroune’s home in New York, according to court records. Fakroune is charged with extorting the owner of a Lincoln Park restaurant.