Gary man gets 18 months for role in fatal shooting in 2011

CROWN POINT | A Gary man was sentenced Monday to 18 months for his role in events preceding the fatal shooting of another Gary man.

Cedar Lake man sentenced in attack on wife and police resistance

CROWN POINT | A Cedar Lake man charged with attempted murder and other charges for choking and shooting at his wife was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in prison with all but six months suspended.

Chicago man gets 12 years for shooting Hammond man

CROWN POINT | A Chicago man was sentenced June 5 to 12 years in prison for a shooting last year that cost a Hammond man his kidney.

Gary man pleads guilty to firing on victim later killed by co-defendant

CROWN POINT | One of two Gary men charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a third Gary man pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of criminal recklessness.

Hammond man handed 38 years in wife's slaying

CROWN POINT | A Hammond man was sentenced Friday to 38 years in prison for the fatal shooting of his estranged wife.

Cedar Lake man sentenced to 80 years for killing neighbor

CROWN POINT | A 24-year-old Cedar Lake man was sentenced Friday to 80 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of a neighbor before he set fire to the man's house.

Man pleads guilty in Lake Station shooting

CROWN POINT | A Gary man admitted Tuesday to shooting a man in the neck during a 2011 encounter in Lake Station.

Gary man handed 55 years in fatal shooting

CROWN POINT | A Gary man was sentenced Monday to 55 years in prison for slaying a man he claimed had robbed him.

Four Chicago men get long sentences for arms, drugs

CHICAGO | Four Chicago men were sentenced to lengthy federal prison terms after being convicted in three separate cases of various firearms and narcotics charges, federal law enforcement officials said Friday.

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Hazel Crest man handed 45 years in throat-slashing

CROWN POINT | A Hazel Crest, Ill., man was sentenced Thursday to 45 years in prison for a bloody attack on a 77-year-old man, the ex-husband of a woman he was dating.

Riley Choate sentenced to 80 years in prison

CROWN POINT | With members of Christian Choate’s family looking on Friday, Lake County Criminal Court Judge Diane Boswell sentenced the slain boy’s father, Riley Choate, to 80 years in prison.

East Chicago man sentenced to 18 months for voyeurism

CROWN POINT | An East Chicago man was handed an 18-month sentence Thursday on a charge of voyeurism.

Chicago man sentenced to four years in prison for shooting death of Schererville woman

CHICAGO | A Chicago man convicted last month of manslaughter in the July 2011 shooting death of a Schererville woman was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday.

Illinois man gets 11-year term on burglary, auto theft counts

CROWN POINT | An Illinois man was ordered Monday to serve 11 years in prison on separate incidents of felony burglary and auto theft, according to the Lake County prosecutor's office.

Griffith man sentenced to 30 years in fatal neglect case

CROWN POINT | A Griffith man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday in the 2010 death of his then-girlfriend's 3-year-old son.

Man sentenced in Valparaiso shooting death

VALPARAISO | A 24-year-old Valparaiso man was sentenced Friday to 40 years behind bars for the 2009 shooting death of his mother's fiance.

Valparaiso man gets 14 years in DUI death

CROWN POINT | A Valparaiso man found guilty in the death of a road service worker killed while fixing a tire on I-65 was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison.

Lowell man gets time served, probation in girls' molestings

CROWN POINT | A 21-year-old man was sentenced Monday on two counts of sexual misconduct with a minor in connecton with separate incidents in his Lowell home.

Harvey man gets 3 years for placing baby in scalding water

CROWN POINT | A 23-year-old Harvey, Ill., man was given a three-year sentence for placing an infant in a bathtub of scalding water, Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter announced Monday.