Crime & Safety
Man Held Plainfield Women Captive in Their Own Home: Police
Jacob Gajcak allegedly told victims he "wanted them to feel what prison is like."
A 21-year-old man is accused of assaulting his girlfriend and her mother after they allowed him to stay at their Plainfield home.
Jacob Gajcak, 21, was arrested by Plainfield police early Wednesday morning after allegedly locking the two women in a bathroom and refusing to allow them to leave.
Sgt. Mike Fisher said Gajcak called his girlfriend after being kicked out of a friend's home the previous night. She agreed to pick him up and let him stay at her home in Plainfield's Creekside Crossing subdivision, according to police.
But things apparently went sour after the couple arrived at the home.
Fisher said the woman reported that she was lying in bed when Gajcak began calling her names. She told police she got up and went into her mother's bedroom.
Gajcak then allegedly started punching holes in the walls before throwing his cell phone at his girlfriend's mother, police said.
The phone did not strike the woman, but Gajcak allegedly threw it so hard that "it literally embedded in the drywall," Fisher said.
Fisher said Gajcak then allegedly shoved the women into a bathroom, refusing to allow them to leave. He is also accused of taking his girlfriend's mother's cell phone when she tried to call police.
"He [was holding] them basically captive in the bathroom, telling them he wanted them to feel what prison is like," Fisher said.
The women were eventually able to get out of the bathroom, and one of them called 911, according to police.
Gajcak was arrested by Plainfield police and charged with unlawful restraint, assault, interfering with the reporting of domestic violence, criminal damage to property and possession of 30-500 grams of cannabis, according to Will County jail records.
Plainfield police said Gajcak is currently homeless, although jail booking records list an address in the 700 block of Dover in Shorewood.
The Feb. 26 incident wasn't Gajcak's first run-in with the law.
In 2011, he was accused of attempting rip off a couple who were trying to buy pot from him, then running over the woman's arm. Jessica Lood later filed a personal injury lawsuit against Gajcak.
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