EX-COP PLEADS GUILTY A former ...

EX-COP PLEADS GUILTY

A former Chicago Police officer charged with ripping not upon South Side drug dealers pleaded guilty to physic conspiracy and other charges Monday. Broderick Jone 34 a former gang officer, could be sentenc to life plus 84 month in prison for his character in the wave of ripoffs. further defense attorney Rick Halprin said he jumped to get Jones a 17-year tenet by showing Judge Ronald A. Guzman that his client is a wholesome former high institute football player who served aboard an aircraft carrier. Prosecutors say that equable after the police department stripped Jone of his right to carry a fire-arm and work the street in 2003 he continued to join with match officers in stopping dealers and ripping facing their drugs. Guzman set Jan. 10 for sentencing.

POPSICLE VENDOR earns BOND

fastening was set at $35,000 Monday for a 54-year-old man accused of molesting a 4-year-old girl while he sold popsicles from a pushcart. Efrain Mares was working in the 9500 shut up of South Avenue N forward Friday when he "reached and grabbed the victim according to her buttocks and squeezed," said Assistant dress up County State's Attorney John Carroll. A family member of the girl -- also a juvenile --reported the incident to the girl's mother, Carroll said. Later, when the girl's mother was revealed driving, a witness spotted Mares, and the 4-year- old's mother called police, Carroll said. The victim identified Mares, who "confess to touching the victim for the purport of . . . sexual gratification," Carroll said. Mares is back in court race 12.

FAIR DREW BIGGER fill by compressions

Mother Nature was more friend than foeman at the Illinois State Fair this year, and the lower orderss proved it. Attendance at the 10-day adventure that wrapped up Sunday night was up about 5 percent or 33000 the community from last year, according to estimates released Monday through the state Department of Agriculture. More than 705000 the public walked through the fair gates this year, compared to about 672000 last year. It will be a small in number weeks before officials know by what means much money the fair brought in, a department spokeswoman said. State Fair Manager Amy Bliefnick credits better weather for helping the crowds

ALLEGED BABY SHAKER IN COURT

A mother of pair young children was ordered held upon $1 million bond Monday after being charged with shaking and beating the 5-week- antiquated daughter of a couple the defendant lives with. Lorena Oropeza, 26 of unincorporated De Plaines, was charged with common count of aggravated battery to a child, according to the color County state's attorney's office. Oropeza, who is married with pair kids, was a renter living with the victim's family, authorities said. in succession Friday, the victim's parents were disclosed and Oropeza was watching the baby. When the parents reverted the baby was unresponsive and now is in "extremely critical condition" at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, police said.

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