From the State’s Attorney:
DOUGLAS ENDERS SENTENCED TO EIGHT YEARS IN THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS FOR KIDNAPPING
The McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office announces that Douglas Enders, 44, of McHenry, Illinois was sentenced to eight years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.
The sentence was handed down on February 27, 2025, by the Honorable Mark R. Gerhardt after Enders entered a negotiated plea of guilty to one count of Kidnapping, a Class 2 Felony.
On March 16, 2024, the McHenry Police Department responded to the Mobile Gas Station in McHenry for a report of a domestic battery.
Upon arrival, police learned that Enders had battered his ex-girlfriend and had confined her in a garage against her will, locking the door and preventing her from leaving.
The defendant and the victim later walked to a gas station, where the victim was able to obtain help from a cashier who called 911.
Enders then fled the gas station and was subsequently apprehended by the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office.
The charge of Kidnapping has a penalty of two to seven years in the Illinois Department of Corrections, but due to the defendant’s criminal history and his extended term eligibility, the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office was able to successfully negotiate a term of eight years in the Illinois Department of Corrections on the charge.
McHenry County State’s Attorney Randi Freese commends Officer Roske with the McHenry Police Department and the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office on their diligent and effective investigative efforts in combating domestic violence in this county.
This case was successfully prosecuted by Assistant State’s Attorney Shelby Page.
