Articles labeled: Waukegan

A missing 17-year-old girl from Zion, Illinois was found by police hiding in the closet of a 24-year-old middle school teacher.

Eric Wood, 24, who teaches at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Waukegan, Ill., was charged only with obstructing justice in the bizarre case surrounding the disappearance of the girl.

The teen’s family filed a missing-person report on Nov. 8.

The following day, Lake County Sheriff’s deputies found the girl at Wood’s Beach Park house after Wood allowed them in to search for her. He initially told authorities that he knew nothing about the girl’s whereabouts.

If we had to teach high school in Waukegan, Illinois, we might have to take a few bong hits ourselves.

A math teacher at Waukegan High School was arrested earlier this week on marijuana charges after she was caught smoking pot in a staff washroom.

Police say Deborah Logan, 46 was smoking in a teacher’s lounge bathroom when security officers confronted her. School security confiscated about one gram of marijuana from Logan, said Waukegan Police Cmdr. Wayne Walles.

There is no indication that Logan, of Evanston, was selling or buying drugs from students, Walles said.

Nelly Vazquez-Salazar woman from Waukegan, Illinois charged with stabbing her 6-year-old daughter to death apparently told police that her daughter attacked her with a knife because she was “possessed”, and that it was self-defense. Vazquez-Salazar later recanted that story, but as to why she did something so horrendous to her child is still unclear.

Christian Alvarez, 25, who lives across the hall from Vazquez-Salazar, said he and his girlfriend were asleep in their apartment at about 4:30 a.m. when they were awakened by loud knocking on their door.

Vazquez-Salazar was screaming and crying hysterically, trying to speak with an emergency dispatcher on her phone but having trouble communicating because of her poor English. She did not appear to have any blood on her, Alvarez said. Vazquez-Salazar at first told Alvarez there was an intruder in her apartment trying to kill her. But when Alvarez asked where her daughter was, her story shifted; she said she had been asleep when Evelyn approached her bed with a knife, threatening “in a different voice” to murder her, Alvarez said the woman told him.

“We were in shock,” he said.

A 6-year-old was found stabbed to death in Waukegan, Illinois, a far northern suburb of Chicago. Police have brought in the mother for questioning as a “person of interest”, but the woman is not under arrest.

Officers responding to a call about 4:40 a.m. in the 4200 block of Hickory Hills Drive found a woman with cuts on her hands and wrists, according to a statement by Waukegan police.

The body of the woman’s daughter, whom authorities identified as Evelyn Vazquez, was found in an adjacent apartment, the statement said. An autopsy conducted Monday afternoon determined that Evelyn died of multiple stab wounds in the neck and upper chest, said Lake County Coroner Richard Keller.

Okay…why in the world do people leave infants and dogs unsupervised?????

This is so horrendous and awful. That poor little baby.

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Police are still looking into what exactly happened in a Waukegan apartment early Sunday morning when a dachshund chewed off the genitals of a 4-month-old boy.

Fire and police personnel arrived at 1:30 a.m. to the home on the city’s far southwest side and encountered the infant — who was bleeding profusely — and took him from the scene in a helicopter to a hospital.

The father of the boy told police he was visiting his girlfriend with his son when the infant fell asleep on a couch. The girlfriend had placed blankets around the child and the two went into another room to sleep.