EPD K9 Officer Travis Hooker during a routine investigation netted a car from out of state with a large bag of what appeared to be marijuana and a back-pack full of cash, along with scales associated with selling drugs. The driver, stopped in the parking lot of JJ Peppers at Chicago and State St., also had a quantity of cocaine on him. Unknown if this was a traffic stop or resulted from a complaint called in by someone. The driver was arrested and the car towed.
The 31 year old father of a toddler left in a burning house and rescued by an Elgin Firefighter, has been charged with two counts of arson, two counts of aggravated arson, aggravated resisting a police officer and two counts of obstructing a firefighter, according to a story just out from the Daily Herald. Beavers (scene in a series of videos on this website), was acting very irrationally and was literally assaulting firefighters after they saved his 2 year old son that was left in the house. Beaver's and the toddler were reportedly the only ones in the home when the fire broke out.
An 2 year old toddler was saved by Elgin Firefighters this afternoon when a basement fire, quickly engulfed the entire front of the home at 517 Cumberland Trail. The call came in as a basement fire and upon arrival of the FD, there was light to moderate smoke coming from a front basement window. That smoke quickly turned to flames and within 2 minutes, had most of the front of the house engulfed in flames. Elgin Firefighter Kevin Hartmann was one of the first firefighters inside the house and when checking the kitchen, found toddler still in the house as smoke covered the ceiling. Shortly after he escaped with the child, the entire kitchen was filled with smoke. Police later arrested the father for starting to fight with firefighters as they tried to extinguish the blaze.
(Sunday Nov. 8, 2009 - Elgin, Il) A 17 year old boy was run down by a boy's mother whom he'd had an altercation with the night before. Click the picture for the whole story in the Elginet Blog.
A call on Prospect Avenue on Elgin's east side this afternoon went from a domestic, to a shooting in a matter of minutes. Police got a call of the gunman walking around the backyard of the home at 461 when EPD Lt. Sean Rafferty pulled into the back of the building and found the man who was suspected of the shooting. After taking him to the ground and waiting for back-up, an ambulance was dispatched to the scene for a woman who was lying in the doorway who had been shot.
Divers and firefighters from area departments had to brave the frozen waters of the Fox River as the car was sumbmerged and slowly moving downstream with only part of the roof visible. It was unknown if anyone was in the vehicle for some time until 2 Elgin Fire Department divers were able to gain entry to the vehicle. It luckily, was empty. The Porsche was stolen out of Chicago and dumped in the Fox presumably from the area of Duncan and the Tollway.
Click the photo at the right to see the whole incident as it played out.
Elginet also got an honorable mention for the published photo (Daily Herald) of Elgin Firefighter Lt. J.P. Fahy holding one of the little girls that were ejected from a Ford Expedition after it rolled over on the tollway in May of 2008. That incident can be found by clicking here.
We'd like to thank the IAFF and Elgin Association of Firefighter's, Local 439 for their recognition.
More information on the IAFF Media Awards Contest can be found by clicking on this link.
