Home Invasion, Kidnapping in Lake in the Hills Lands One in Jail: Police

LAKE IN THE HILLS, IL - A well-being check at a home in Lake in the Hills has lead to home invasion and kidnapping charges. The police department was called to a home in the 900 block of Mesa Drive at about 9:23 a.m. on May 11, police said. While investigating, officers learned there had been a home invasion, burglary, aggravated domestic battery and strangulation and kidnapping at the home, Amanda Schmitt, public information officer for the Lake in the Hills Police Department, said in a news release.

Authorities did not provide any immediate details on who was victimized or what happened during the incident. They did identify Louis A. Hernandez Jr. as a suspect in the home invasion, Schmitt said.

Warrants were issued for his arrest and Hernandez was taken into custody after he was located by the McHenry County Sheriff's Department and the United States Marshal's Service.

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He was returned to the Lake in the Hills Police Department for processing and has been charged with two counts of home invasion/cause injury, two counts of unlawful restraint, kidnapping/secretly confine, two counts residential burglary and one count of aggravated battery/strangle and aggravated domestic battery/strangle, according to online court records.

The home invasion remains under investigation, police said.

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