Illinois Quick Hits: Chicago man sentenced for sex trafficking
(The Center Square) – A Chicago man has been sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for sex trafficking and kidnapping.
A federal jury convicted Dennis Williams, 33, last year after prosecutors said he used threats, violence, drugs and other means to force five victims to engage in commercial sex.
The charges stemmed from the sex-trafficking operation Williams ran in 2022 and 2023 out of his Chicago home and motels in Lansing, IL.
MIGRANT SENTENCED
A Venezuelan migrant has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for trying to murder another migrant who killed his friend, also a migrant, on Chicago’s South Side in November 2024.
CWB Chicago reports that both shootings occurred inside the same Washington Park apartment building where 911 callers reported armed migrants had “taken over” months earlier.
Henry Brito-Dominguez, 25, pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Carlos Reinaldo Maribal-Carvajal. Maribal-Carvajal remains jailed as he fights murder charges in connection with the death of Peter Sangronis-Medina.
LOTTERY GRANT RECIPIENTS
The Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs has announced nearly $1 million in grants to organizations providing services to veterans and their families. T
he Veterans Scratch-Off Lottery Ticket grant is a yearly competitive reimbursement grant offered quarterly to nonprofits, tax-exempt entities and governmental organizations.
All of the announced grant recipients are in northern Illinois, with $542,770 of the more than $910,000 total going to organizations in Chicago.
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