{"id":842397,"date":"2026-06-03T22:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/842397\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:18:24","slug":"suburban-chicago-man-charged-with-8th-dui-after-crashing-into-minivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/842397\/","title":{"rendered":"Suburban Chicago man charged with 8th DUI after crashing into minivan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Barrett | Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office <\/p>\n

ALGONQUIN, Ill.<\/strong> – A Chicago-area man was ordered to be held in custody after recording his eighth arrest for driving under the influence<\/a>, which resulted in six people being hospitalized.<\/p>\n

The backstory:<\/p>\n

The crash happened Sunday on South Randall Road in Algonquin<\/a>, according to the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n

Robert Barrett, 42, was allegedly driving a 2016 BMW sedan into oncoming traffic when he collided head-on with a minivan that was carrying six people.<\/p>\n

The passengers of the minivan were taken to local hospitals with some of them suffering serious injuries.<\/p>\n

Responding officers reported that Barrett had slurred speech, red glassy eyes and the smell of alcohol on his breath. Barrett has seven previous DUI-related convictions, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

Barrett, of Lake in the Hills, was taken into custody and charged with three counts of aggravated DUI.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What’s next:<\/p>\n

He appeared in court for a pretrial detention hearing on Monday and was ordered to be held in custody at the Kane County Jail ahead of his next court date on June 10.<\/p>\n

The Source:<\/b> The information in this report came from the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n

Algonquin<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Robert Barrett | Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office ALGONQUIN, Ill. – A Chicago-area man was ordered to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":842398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[32891,960,6082,5386,1818,24563,50,68],"class_list":["post-842397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-algonquin","tag-chicago","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-mchenry-county","tag-news","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116688499979559042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}