Monday, April 22, 2013
The suspect persuaded the Plainfield woman, 32, to meet him in the Fairfield Inn lobby by telling her he wanted to repay her money he'd borrowed, Joliet police said.
A former Plainfield resident who allegedly lured a former girlfriend to a Joliet motel on the pretext of paying back money he owed her only to rape her in a public rest room was arrested Saturday night, Joliet police said. Jonathan M. Fox, 25, of 1102 Theresa Arbor Drive in Tampa, Florida, contacted the Plainfield woman by text several times in an effort to persuade her to meet him at the Fairfield Inn, 3239 Norman Ave., not far from the Louis Joliet Mall, Cmdr. Al Roechner said. The 32-year-old woman had a restraining order filed against Fox but agreed to meet him in the motel lobby at 6 p.m., Roechner said. While waiting, the woman decided to use the public rest room only to be followed in by Fox, who proceeded to throw her to the floor …
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Crest Hill police arrested Bruce Gimpel on Thanksgiving morning and charged him with first-degree murder.
Police have arrested a neighbor in the murder of 89-year-old Dorothy Dumyahn, whose body was found Sunday inside her burned Crest Hill home. Bruce Gimpel, 48, who lived next door to Dumyahn in his brother's 2313 Caton Farm Road house, was taken into custody Thursday morning and charged with first-degree murder, Crest Hill Police Chief Dwayne Wilkerson told the Joliet Herald News. Gimpel was a suspect early on in the case because of the inconsistent statements he made to police, Wilkerson said. No motive was released as to why Gimpel would stab the elderly woman or set her home on fire to conceal the homicide, according to the story. The Will-Grundy Major Crimes Task Force handled the investigation, which had the manpower to canvass the …
Thursday, May 24, 2012
In a statement released Thursday, Democratic candidate Natalie Manley spoke of her love for the daughter she was charged with battering.
The democratic candidate jailed two weeks ago for allegedly battering her 21-year-old daughter spoke of her love for the young woman in a statement released Thursday evening. "I love my daughter and that will never change," candidate Natalie Manley said in the press release. "I look forward to the time when I can speak freely about the issues I am facing and appreciate the outpouring of support from so many people." Manley, 50, a Joliet accountant and candidate in the 98th District race, was arrested at her Ingalls Avenue home and taken to the Will County jail after she allegedly battered her daughter. Police said Manley “punched" her daughter, and also "kicked, knocked her to the ground, struck her in the face (and) hit her with a set of …
Monday, May 7, 2012
One way or the other, whether he's going to prison or back home, it looks like Drew Peterson won't mark a fourth year in the Will County jail.
Three years ago today, a small army of police descended on Drew Peterson as he drove away from his Bolingbrook home, and a small army of media was there to record it. Three years later, the press is back, as the attention-starved Peterson was recently in court for the first time in nearly a year and a half. Peterson may have appreciated the coverage, but unfortunately for him, the disgraced former cop was still stuck in jail waiting on his murder trial to finally start. The good news for Peterson, 58, is he likely won’t be spending another year in segregation in the Will County jail. His trial on charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio, is all but certain to begin before the year is out, ending a lengthy legal saga of appeals …
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The pair, both from Plainfield, are accused of stealing items from the grounds of the closed Rizzi's Flower Garden and Aquatic Center.
Two Plainfield men who packed their pickup truck with so many stolen items that the backend almost touched the ground were arrested on charges of theft early Wednesday morning. Plainfield police spotted the truck driven by Keith J. Wells, 21, and Nicholas Eugene Davito, 18, near the Fraser Road entrance to the shuttered Rizzi’s Flower Garden & Aquatic Center, 16202 S. Route 59, Sgt. Mike Fisher said. That the truck was dragging so low to the ground and the driver was near a closed business raised the suspicions of the patrol officers who stopped them at about 12:25 a.m., Fish said. The pair had loaded up their black Chevy S-10 with items from the grounds of landscaping business, including two portable heaters, an air-conditioning unit, …
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Police say Ashley Sullivan no longer lived with her family, but was discovered sleeping inside the house.
An 18-year-old Plainfield woman who stole computers, televisions and an Xbox video game console from her family's house while they were vacationing has been arrested and charged with residential burglary. Ashley E. Sullivan broke into the 25427 Pastoral Drive home Friday night, a burglary that was discovered after the fact by neighbors who were watching the house while the family was away, Plainfield police Sgt. Mike Fisher said. When neighbors noticed suspicious activity at the house again Sunday night, they called police, who discovered Sullivan sleeping inside, Fisher said. The latter incident netted her a criminal trespass to residence charge. "She admitted what she did," Fisher said. Sullivan was no longer residing with her mother and…
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Monday, March 26, 2012
The homeless man charged with murdering the employee of a funeral vault manufacturing company during a botched break-in was sent back to jail on a $5 million bond.
The homeless man apprehended Sunday and charged with the murder of a 69-year-old funeral vault company employee was sent back to jail with a $5 million bond Monday afternoon. Michael Eberle, a 42-year-old "drifter" was captured while hiding in the weeds near Knauer Industries on the Interstate 55 frontage road outside Shorewood, police said. Will County sheriff's deputies tracked Eberle down soon after he viciously beat to death 69-year-old Patrick Shaughnessy, a long-time Knauer employee, police said. Eberle allegedly killed Knauer to cap off a Sunday morning crime spree that included attempting to break into a house in Shorewood's Saddlebrook Estates subdivision and stealing a pickup truck from a Troy Township farm. Eberle rammed the …
An area homeless man taken into custody Sunday morning in connection with the beating death of a man outside Shorewood has been charged with murder.
The drifter caught hiding in the weeds near the grisly scene of a beating death at a funeral service business has been charged with murder. Michael Eberle, 42, was taken into custody Sunday morning and questioned throughout the day in connection with the bludgeoning death of Patrick Shaughnessy, 69, of Joliet. Shaughnessy was a long-time employee of Knauer Industries and he was at the funeral business on the northeast frontage road of Interstate 55 when he came upon Eberle about 9 a.m., police said. Eberle viciously beat Shaughnessy and then scuffled with another employee who was just showing up to work, police said. Numerous motorists driving by on I-55 noticed Eberle and the second worker fighting and alerted police, said Deputy Chief …
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Tiffany Book would go to Chicago several times a week to stock up on her supply to sell locally, Sgt. Mark Weber said.
The 19-year-old Plainfield woman busted for selling heroin was making trips into Chicago every couple of days to buy hundreds of dollars’ worth of the drug, Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Mark Weber said Wednesday. Tiffany N. Book would buy “jabs” – 13 small heroin packets for $100 – from her dealer and then resell them at seven for $100 in order to make a profit, said Weber, who heads the Will County Cooperative Police Agency Team. A raid conducted by the team Tuesday led to Book's arrest on four counts of manufacture/delivery of heroin. It’s not clear how much profit she was making because she was also addicted to heroin and feeding her own habit as well as that of her customers, he said. While Weber would not discuss how CPAT learned…
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The 12-year-old told police he was sorry for his actions and glad no one was hurt, Police Chief John Konopek said at a press conference today.
The 12-year-old boy who confessed to setting fire to five cars did so because he wanted to “see how big the fires would get” and didn’t consider that someone could be injured, Plainfield Police Chief John Konopek said today. “He did show remorse about it, and he said he didn’t want to see anyone get hurt,” Konopek said, speaking at a press conference at the Plainfield Police Department. The middle school student, who was living with a foster family in the Hazelwood Drive neighborhood where the fires were set between Dec. 25 and Jan. 8, was apprehended at about 8 a.m. Monday when Detective Dino Dabezic caught him breaking into a car. Police had been doing surveillance in the area in the hope that they could capture the suspect committing a …
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Anonymous
2:12 am on Friday, May 10, 2013
Unfortunately, I knew him too. And sadly, I'd be willing to bet money that his parents bail him out and claim the young lady is lying and he is innocent. more ›