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Tom Schuba

Assistant criminal justice editor

Tom Schuba is a reporter and editor focused on criminal justice issues, and he previously covered the legalization of marijuana across Illinois. He has earned a National Headliner Award for a series of stories investigating the state’s troubled cannabis testing regulations, among other prizes for his reporting. An Evanston native and longtime Chicago resident, Tom began his tenure with the Sun-Times as an overnight crime reporter after serving as an investigative intern and political blogger at NBC Chicago.

Crosetti Brand, 37, changed his story when he testified before parole officials, who ultimately decided to release him on March 12, a day before the attack at his ex-girlfriend’s North Side apartment.
The shooting last month outside the VLive nightclub is being investigated as a hate crime. The gunman allegedly said, “Bad gay,” before firing.
Officials have struggled to explain why Crosetti Brand, 37, was released from the Stateville Correctional Center on Tuesday — a day before the attack — after he had been sent back to prison earlier this year for menacing the woman while on parole.
The April 2021 pursuit that led to the devastating injuries suffered by Nathen Jones was one of a long line of Chicago police chases ending tragically. It also violated a newly-revised CPD policy intended to rein in vehicular pursuits. The payment, one of the largest in Chicago history, will help with the around-the-clock care Jones will need for the rest of his life.
The suspect, 37, has a long criminal history that dates back to at least 2004 in Cook County. He has been convicted of domestic battery and violating orders of protection in several cases.
The process of firing Sgt. Michael Vitellaro for allegedly using excessive force and lying about what happened was already in motion when he was acquitted last June on criminal charges stemming from the 2022 incident.
“We want to make sure that we maintain peace,” Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling said during a news conference Wednesday about this summer’s Democratic National Convention. “We’re going to police constitutionally.”
The U.S. Marshals Service announced the arrest of a 29-year-old Venezuelan man in a news release that was taken offline after the Sun-Times raised questions.
Former Corporation Counsel Mara Georges allegedly made statements to a city official that were “prejudicial, generally unsupported, and contained hearsay and slander,” according to the complaint to Illinois’ attorney oversight commission.