Search Reveals Over $40 Million of Cocaine in Vehicle Illinois State Police brought felony charges against 27-year-old Vanshpreet Singh and 36-year-old Manpreet Singh, both from Canada, after recovering over $40 million of cocaine during a traffic stop. Police pulled...
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iPhone Update Helps Locks Out Law Enforcement
Inactivity Reboot Feature Makes iPhone More Secure Police agencies suddenly issued alarms recently when they noticed that suddenly iPhones in their possession were quietly rebooting on their own, frustrating law enforcement who had previously seized the phone and...
Federal District Court Rules Illinois Assault Rifle Ban Unconstitutional
District Court Ruling Sets Up Appellate Court Battle As we have previously covered, multiple times, a court made a key ruling around the Illinois statewide ban against the future sale, distribution or possession of what are commonly referred to as assault rifles in...
Issues Remain with How Law Enforcement Tracks and Prosecutes Child Pornography
Appellate Court Finds Law Enforcement Violated Constitutional Rights with Warrantless Search of Email Containing Possible Child Pornography The Second Circuit of Appeals recently found that law enforcement violated the 4th Amendment rights of an individual when they...
Criminal Justice Reform on the Ballot in Several States
Voters to Weigh in on Marijuana Legalization, Police Funding, and Other Issues With the upcoming election in November, voters in several states will have the opportunity to vote on several ballot initiatives that are designed to allow the public to have their voices...
Me Too Movement 2.0?
Sexual Assault Accusations Against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Garth Brooks Rattles Music Industry In the past several weeks there have been a new rash of criminal charges and accusations of sexual assault against icons in the music industry, including federal charges...
Criminal Justice Reform Continues in Illinois
As we have previously covered, the passing and implementation of the SAFE-T Act, which eliminated cash bail in Illinois, was a hotly debated/litigated issue that saw both sides forecasting the best/worst outcomes with the dramatic change in how pretrial release is...
Illinois Law Enforcement Agencies Embracing Use of Drones
Chicago Police Department Looking to Expand Drone Fleet Last year the Chicago Police Department (“CPD”) purchased its first five drones and hired three pilots, but the CPD is trying to find the funding to purchase more, saying that drones are, “the future of...
Indicted New York Mayor Eric Adams Defense Team Hints at Weak Case After Prosecutors Turn Over Evidence
Federal Prosecutors Turn Over Brady Evidence Concerning Key Witness The defense team representing indicted New York Mayor Eric Adams conveyed their belief to the media that the case against the embattled Mayor is weak after they recently received Brady evidence from...
Dangerous Elements Continue to Plague Prisons Across the Country
Uncertainty Remains Around Prisoners Safety in the Face of Hurricanes With Hurricane Milton approaching (and now passed), several county jails and prisons in the evacuation zone in Florida announced that they would not evacuate inmates before the storm made landfall,...


