A state audit released Monday accused Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. of improperly using nearly $300,000 for charity ...

The number of inmates in the Lake County Jail with HIV has tripled this year, but Warden Todd Wasmer said the increase was a result of the jail population increasing this year as well. The jail had ...

Bearing signs and joining in chants and speeches, protestors recently expressed their opposition to agreements between the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The Lake County Sheriff's Office announced on Saturday that they've arrested 27 men following a two-day human trafficking suppression operation earlier this week. The office said the operation ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WGN) — In an effort to ...

Inmate Larry Stone made enough money to post bond and get out of jail. July 28, 2011 — -- Some clever inmates at the Lake County Jail in Florida figured out a money-making scheme by allegedly ...