Crime & Safety
Duo From Evanston Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering
Juan C. Fernandez and Reyna Garcia-Manzanares both agreed to a six year prison sentence.

Two people were sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison for money laundering.
Juan C. Fernandez, 40, and Reyna Garcia-Manzanares, 42, both of the 400 block of West Howard Street in Evanston, pleaded guilty to felony money laundering in exchange for the sentence, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
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According to prosecutors, Fernandez and Garcia-Manzanares were seen by Department of Homeland Security agents meeting with someone in the parking lot of an Aurora business and left in a Jeep Grand Cherokee. When police pulled the car over in Chicago, they found more than $190,000 in cash.
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