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‘SUSPICIOUS DEATH’ Autopsy: Island Lake woman died of blunt force trauma
Person of interest in custody after crashing missing car
Allegedly texted picture of genitals to 10-year-old girl By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – A single digit could wind up costing a Harvard man. The defense attorney for 37-yearold Raul Placencia-Quintero said his client intended to send picture messages of his gen“Nothing itals to his wife’s cellphone, but was good comes one number off. Instead, a photo from putting of his private parts a smartwas sent to the cellphone of a 10-year- phone down old girl. The girl’s par- your pants.” ents told MarenPhillip go police, who charged PlacenProssnitz cia-Quintero with Defense attorney obscenity. The charge is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in the McHenry County Jail, a fine of up to $2,500 or both. Placencia-Quintero’s case has been set for bench trial July 1, meaning it’s up to Judge Joel Berg to decide if the man acted recklessly – or that he knowingly broke the law, and therefore should be criminally punished – or if it merely was a simple mistake. “He is one fat finger away from having dialed it correctly,” defense attorney Phillip Prossnitz said. “He was one digit off. It was a silly thing. He made a silly mistake, but it doesn’t rise to wanton or willful disregard.” The defense will stipulate to the girl’s testimony so she can avoid the witness stand, Prossnitz said. Of the case overall, Prossnitz had this to say: “Nothing good comes from putting a smartphone down your pants.”
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Island Lake police and McHenry County sheriff’s deputies investigate the “suspicious death” of an Island Lake woman Tuesday in Island Lake. A forensic autopsy performed Tuesday afternoon suggests that her death was caused by blunt force trauma, according to a news release. By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com
CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com
and STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com ISLAND LAKE – Authorities are investigating the “suspicious death” of an Island Lake woman but have stopped short of ruling it a homicide. Karen M. Scavelli, 48, of Island Lake, was found dead in her home at 735 Dartmouth Drive by Island Lake police during a well-being
check Monday evening, McHenry en into custody in Lake County, County Coroner Anne Majewski McHenry County Undersheriff said in a news release. Andrew Zinke said, adding the A forensic autopsy performed man’s arrest there came after a Tuesday afternoon car stolen from the suggests her death was On the Web Island Lake home the caused by blunt force night before crashed trauma, the release into a Mundelein For video from the said. Scavelli was pro- scene of the incident, home Tuesday mornnounced dead at 10:06 visit NWHerald.com. ing. p.m. A preliminary inA toxicology report vestigation indicates is pending and the “traumatic, this is an isolated incident and unnatural death” is still under in- the public is not in any danger, vestigation, it said. the Island Lake police said in a A person of interest was tak- news release.
Scavelli has lived at the Dartmouth Drive house for about 10 years, said Celeste Carver, who lives next door with her husband, Doug, and their children. Scavelli has three grown children in their 20s, Carver said. The oldest daughter and her child recently moved in. Scavelli was “the type of person who would give you the food off her table,” Celeste Carver said, with multiple family members adding that she was known as
See INVESTIGATION, page A5
Governor says $36B budget still needs work, vows to comb through it “The other person is too timid, too fearful to lay out a plan for the people of Illinois.”
The Associated Press CHICAGO – Gov. Pat Quinn said the nearly $36 billion budget state lawmakers sent him still needs work and vowed Tuesday to comb through it before signing off. The spending plan doesn’t include an extension of the state’s 2011 temporary income tax increase, which Quinn had said was necessary to avoid massive cuts to edu-
Gov. Pat Quinn, on gubernatorial opponent Bruce Rauner not presenting a spending plan cation and other areas. When the tax rolls back in January, it’ll create roughly a $1.8 billion revenue hole. Legislators, who rejected an election-year tax extension, have
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said they’ll return after the November election to address the revenue question. The move creates a sticky situation for Quinn.
The Chicago Democrat is seeking a second full term against Republican businessman Bruce Rauner, who has repeatedly called Quinn an ineffective leader and blasted the budget as “phony.” At the same time, a bond rating agency – Moody’s Investors Service – said Tuesday that Illinois’ financial rating could suffer if lawmakers don’t extend the tax increase, reversing much of the financial progress in the state that already has the worst
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WOODSTOCK: Retired astronaut talks to area middle schoolers about his experience working at NASA. Local, B1
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ALGONQUIN The Warriors were in control of Tuesday’s Class 4A Jacobs Sectional semifinal softball game against DeKalb, carrying a 4-0 lead into the bottom of the fifth. That’s when everything fell apart for McHenry. It was an error to start the fifth that started a streak of seven consecutive DeKalb hitters to reach base, sparking a seven-run Barbs rally. For more, see page C1.
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credit rating nationwide. Quinn, who has called the budget “incomplete,” defended his intentions Tuesday in his first comments to reporters on the budget since lawmakers approved it early Saturday. He said he proposed an honest and detailed budget in March that addressed the state’s serious financial issues, while his opponent hasn’t yet presented a spending plan.
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