Nearly six years ago, a speeding red car hit and killed a pedestrian on Route 14 near Lake Shore Drive on Woodstock’s east side. Police released a blurry photo of the car believed to have struck 43-year-old David P. Anderson about 9:48 p.m. March 30, 2017, before fleeing west on the highway. The photo wasn’t […]
“We do not consider ourselves to be susceptible to a scam,” a Woodstock woman wrote about her and her husband, “and yet we fell for it! We were embarrassed. …” The woman related that in an email to Woodstock Police Chief John Lieb to thank him for his department’s professionalism in investigating the scheme that […]
Woodstock Police said parents should not be concerned about the safety of their children in District 200 schools despite a rash of threats that were investigated last week. D-200 officials reported Monday a Woodstock High School student had admitted scrawling a threat to “shoot up” the school on a boys’ bathroom stall, and Police Chief […]
See a video of the BolaWrap training at the Woodstock Police Department. The Woodstock Police Department will soon adopt a new device designed to safely and painlessly immobilize non-compliant, non-responsive individuals from a distance – people in distress as well as suspects. The BolaWrap is a hand-held remote restraint device that was introduced in 2017. […]
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