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LAKE COUNTY — Christian Reyes Maldonado, 23, of East Chicago, has been sentenced to a total of 50 years in prison for the March 24, 2024, shooting death of Luis Anthony Ramirez near West 145th ....

CROWN POINT - According to court documents, on October 23, 2025, at approximately 8:49 p.m., Crown Point Police were dispatched to Elizabeth Drive and East Street for a report of a reckless driver. A man, ....

Thomas Demarcus Starks of Gary has been found guilty in connection with a deadly ambush shooting that left one person dead and another seriously injured at an apartment building on Clark Road in Gary. Lake ....

Thursday morning, East Chicago Police Gang and Narcotics Division executed a State of Indiana search warrant for narcotics at 4006 Euclid Avenue, according to Chief Jose Rivera.  The target of the investigation, 26-year-old, Martel Mendoza, ....

Lake County- A Lake County jury has returned a guilty verdict against Melissa Jo Samuels in connection with a methamphetamine dealing case that began in Munster in July 2024. According to court records, Samuels was ....

CROWN POINT – Lake County Prosecutor Bernard A. Carter announced that a Lake County jury deliberated for less than two and a half hours before returning a guilty verdict in the case of State of Indiana ....

LAKE STATION  — A Lake Station woman has been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old Bernard Taylor Jr., who was found dead in a Family Dollar parking lot early Sunday morning, according to ....

An investigation by the Lake County Sheriff’s Department Special Victims Unit put a 32-year-old child solicitation suspect behind bars this afternoon, according to Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. He now faces a felony charge ....

Gary- A Gary woman is facing several felony charges after investigators say she stabbed her upstairs neighbor multiple times during a late-night fight inside an apartment, according to court documents filed in Lake County. Shortly ....

St. John-According to court documents, on October 21, 2025, an officer with the St. John Police Department observed a 2015 Chevy Cruz near Wicker Avenue drifting over the center line, nearly striking a raised median ....