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08-20-2013, 06:50 AM
Author: Linda Gilbertson
By Steve Schmadeke Chicago Tribune COOK COUNTY, Ill. — A Cook County judge and a sheriff's deputy tackled a defendant who tried to run out of a courtroom Friday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building. The drama began after Judge Nicholas Ford said he would increase bond for Vongia Weathers, 32, for testing positive for marijuana, cocaine, methadone and heroin, according to the judge. "He ...

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