Man pleads guilty:

A 20-year-old Wheeling man on Wednesday pleaded guilty to aggravated domestic battery for entering a home, grabbing a woman who was inside and threatening a man who was with her. Javier Noveron was sentenced to two years probation and 149 days in Cook County Jail in exchange for pleading guilty. He faced up to three years in prison. Noveron was also ordered to pay $724 in fines, according to court records. Mount Prospect police responded to a call about a robbery at a home in the 300 block of Main Street on Sept. 5, 2016. En route, they learned the offender had fled in a black sedan. According to the police, the female victim said Noveron had entered the home and confronted her and a male victim. Police say Noveron threatened both of the victims, grabbed the woman around the neck and took her cellphone, preventing her from calling 911. Officers stopped the black sedan at Main Street and Northwest Highway and stopped the car. Of the five occupants initially detained, four were released and Noveron was charged, police officers said.

Police go high-tech:

The head of the Chicago Police Department said Wednesday that his officers are now using high-tech strategies and equipment to fight crime, an announcement that came as the city’s police released statistics showing no letup in the death toll that captured the nation’s attention last year. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson demonstrated how officers will use software called ShotSpotter to almost immediately learn when and where someone has fired a gun. Johnson also showed his audience a computer system that will help police predict where violence might erupt.

4th person dies after crash:

Authorities say a man has died two weeks after a crash on the Eisenhower Expressway in Chicago that killed three passengers in the car he was driving. The Cook County medical examiner’s office says Hargrays, 41, of Chicago died Tuesday at a hospital where he was treated following the crash. Police say the single-vehicle crash happened about 2:15 a.m. Jan. 17 along the outbound lanes near Western Avenue. Illinois State Police say the driver lost control, went off the roadway and hit a utility pole. Police have said alcohol is believed to be a factor in the crash.