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Kendall sheriff investigating contraband in jail

The Kendall County sheriff’s office is investigating an inmate in the county jail in Yorkville for possible possession of contraband within a penal institution. According to the sheriff’s office, sometime between Sept. 12 and Friday, an inmate had a liquid that could be used to make homemade liquor, police said.

Charges against at 22-year-old Plano man were pending the lab results of tests on the liquid, police said.

Aurora

Juan Perez, 34, 100 block of Trask Street, Aurora, was charged with felonies drunken driving, aggravated drunken driving and driving while license suspended after a two-car crash at 7:46 p.m. Sunday near Loucks and New York streets, the Kane County state’s attorney’s office said. Perez was also charged with failure to yield, illegal transportation of alcohol and no insurance, police said. Perez has two previous drunken driving convictions and did not have a license or insurance at the time of the crash, prosecutors said. His license had been suspended at least three previous times, prosecutors said. Perez tried to run from the crash, but was stopped by bystanders, police said. Aurora police refused to say if anyone was injured in the crash.

Armani Jiminez, 20, 400 block of Liberty Street, Aurora, and Rafael Fernando Nunez, 20, 400 block of Liberty Street, Aurora, have been charged with felony armed robbery with a firearm. They are accused of taking a backpack from a man at gunpoint Sunday near Front and High streets, the Kane County state’s attorney’s office said. Nunez was also charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon for carrying a revolver without a Firearm Owner’s Identification Card, prosecutors said.

Dennis Behrens, 53, 200 block of East New York Street, Aurora, was charged with felony violation of the Sex Offender Registration Act at 3:50 p.m. Friday at his home, police said.

Grocery store proposed for Kendall Yards - Spokesman.com - Sept ...

Kendall Yards is bringing home the bacon. Bread and produce, too.

The mixed-use development near the Spokane County courthouse may deliver a full-service grocery store by Thanksgiving next year.

One to three office buildings and more housing also are planned next year in the Greenstone Corp. project.

Meanwhile, the company is working with Spokane city officials to reduce long-term parking on streets in commercial portions of Kendall Yards and to extend the Centennial Trail through the project.

Proposed on-street parking changes would eliminate 90 10-hour meters in the vicinity of the courthouse, where more than a thousand employees already are on a waiting list for spaces in a county parking lot.

Greenstone President Jason Wheaton said company officials are considering a variety of strategies to control parking around the grocery store site – bounded by College Avenue, Summit Parkway (formerly Ide Avenue), Cedar Street and Jefferson Street.

“There’s a reason there hasn’t been a grocery store downtown, and a big part of it is the parking needs around it,” Wheaton said.

Vice President Wayne Frost said Greenstone is negotiating with “established stores that the local community would recognize.”

“I’m hoping to have one by Thanksgiving of 2012,” Frost said.

A parking study by a Portland firm, Rick Williams Consulting, urges city officials to provide 90-minute free parking on streets bordering the grocery store complex, which would include restaurants, shops and offices.

While encouraging turnover needed to support the businesses, the proposal would eliminate about three dozen of the 10-hour meters on College Avenue that county employees often use, according to Don McDowell, a county employee development coordinator whose duties include managing county parking facilities.

“That sure wouldn’t help county employees at all,” McDowell said. “I’d like to have another parking lot with 36 spaces in it, I’ll tell you that.

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