Gang Unit Seizes Guns, Drugs from Plainfield Township Home

Additional charges are pending against Oudam Thou and Robert Thou after a Jan. 29 search of their home.

Two Plainfield Township men face felony charges after the Will County Gang Suppression Unit seized two semi-automatic weapons and thousands of grams of cannabis and synthetic cannabis during a search of their Hampton Court home. Oudam Thou, 26, and Robert Thou, 22, of the 1900 block of Hampton Court, are charged with manufacture/delivery of 2,000-5,000 grams of cannabis. Robert Thou is also charged with possession of a firearm without a Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card. Get Plainfield news delivered right to your inbox — sign up for the Patch newsletter. Will County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Kathy Hoffmeyer said additional charges against the duo are pending the outcome of testing on the suspected synthetic cannabis, also …

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District 202 Budget on Display with $8.9 Million Deficit

District 202 board to also consider placing locked gun safes in the district high schools and granted a five-year tax abatement to a global baked goods manufacturer

Plainfield District 202 has put its 2012-13 budget on public display with a projected $8.9 million operating fund deficit. While the school board is preparing to adopt the budget next month with a deficit, it is also working on ways to erase it and will likely file an updated amended budget with the state in early 2013. Finances continue to change weekly, district officials said. Last month, the district anticipated an operating fund deficit of $8.1 million, but then district officials learned that its general state aid dropped by about $1.2 million. Other revenues, including Title I, funding increased. Meanwhile, state officials are trying to decide if teacher pension plan responsibilities will be shifted to local school districts. “We’re…

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Yeezy Yikes! Nike Nuts Robbed

Seven young men waiting outside the closed Louis mall to buy the new Air Yeezy 2 were robbed Saturday morning.

The newest Nike basketball shoe everybody's got to have ended up costing seven young men their cash, wallets and cell phones. The young men—a 20-year-old and some 16 and 17-year-olds—formed up outside the closed Westfield Louis Joliet mall near the entrance to T.G.I. Friday's about 1 a.m., police said. The group passed the time together, sitting in lawn chairs and waiting for the mall to open so they could be the brand new Air Yeezy 2, the latest Nike gotta-have. The shoe was just released Saturday morning at a retail price of $245. Another group of three men arrived about 2 a.m. and stayed apart from the first group. After about an hour, the three outsider pulled the hoods of their sweat shirts over their heads and yanked the draw strings…

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Plainfield Residents Charged in Police Raid with Selling Heroin, Cocaine

The Will County Cooperative Police Assistance Team made the busts, which in addition to the drugs also yielded guns and dynamite.

A police raid on a Plainfield house Tuesday morning netted three arrests and a cache of heroin, cocaine, guns and dynamite. The Will County Cooperative Police Assistance Team, of which a Plainfield police officer is a member, obtained a search warrant to go into the house at 14904 S. Center St. Tiffany N. Book, 19, who lives at the house, was charged with four counts of manufacture/delivery of 10 to 15 grams of heroin, according to the Will County jail booking list. Also living at the house was Mark P. Stephanites, 49, who was charged with illegal possession of 15 or more grams of cocaine, possession of explosives/incendiary devices and unlawful use of weapons. Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Mark Weber, who heads the Will County CPAT, …

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you deserve it

10:57 am on Friday, March 16, 2012

you gotta bigger bust for them? sounds like u know alot about tiffany, sounds like she was supplying you.   more ›

Pistol Packin' Mama: Mom Talk

Erin cheers the teen mom who protected her newborn with a shotgun.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had it right with his non-violent approach to changing the world. There are any number religious, political and social reasons I could cite as to why I believe we should turn the other cheek. And yet, when the teen mom in Oklahoma was faced with an intruder coming through her door with a knife, I cheered to learn she blew him away with a 12-guage. Sarah McKinley, 18, was in her mobile home alone with her 3-month old son on New Year's Eve. (Her husband, 58, had died on Christmas Day of lung cancer.) That's when Justin Martin, 24, and his alleged partner in crime, Dustin Stewart, 29, were reportedly looking for drugs that were prescribed to the deceased. The mom said she got her shot gun and a pistol, put a bottle …

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Sheila Raddatz

9:24 pm on Thursday, January 12, 2012

I saw that interview. I think every mom out there would pretty much side with Sarah on this one. Mom's have that special "power" when it comes to protecting their babies. I wonder if someone set up an account for Sarah and her baby yet. She needs a good home.   more ›

Arizona Shooting Prompts Trustee to Push for Village Hall Metal Detectors

Paul Fay says the device would offer needed protection for elected officials, but the concept is opposed by at least two board members.

Plainfield Trustee Paul Fay says a metal detector is needed at village hall to prevent a shooting similar to that in which an Arizona congresswoman was gravely injured and six people killed. Fay, who broached the subject with fellow board members this week, said it’s a sad commentary on the current state of the world but precautions are necessary. “I am very serious about this,” he said. “There are too many incidents of this kind in our culture.” Fay’s idea would be to install an unmanned monitoring system at the front door of village hall, 24401 Lockport St. Village employees would be trained on how to handle a situation in which it was activated, and a police officer attending village board meetings could do the same thing after hours, …

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Hunting Near Subdivision Has Homeowners Angry, Fearful

Century Trace residents say police can't help them because hunting's allowed on unincorporated land even if it's surrounded by subdivisions.

In the late fall/early winter, it sounds a lot like Independence Day at Century Trace subdivision in northwest Plainfield.  Pop, pop, pop.  That's the sound Tim Piekarski hears when he's sleeping in his bedroom, located at the back of his house on Champion Drive. That's the side that faces a 100-acre farm field where hunters like to shoot fowl and the occasional deer. "It sounds like the Fourth of July," he said.  Carrie Wrona, who lives on Millennium Parkway, gets the same multigun wake-up call on weekend mornings. A neighbor told Wrona that buckshot actually grazed her house.  I wanted to talk to those neighbors, but they had moved away. I can't imagine why they wanted to get out of Dodge.   "This is really obnoxious, in my opinion," …

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Mega Sports Expansion Approved by Village Board

Giant gun and shooting supply store will create 20,000 square feet of new retail space under proposed plan.

Plans to expand Mega Sports and add 20,000-square-feet of new retail space to the gun retail shop were approved Monday night by the Plainfield Village Board. The site plan, endorsed by the village plan commission, also calls for the building facade to be updated with the addition of brick and stone enhancements, a new entrance created and a new parking lot built. The store, located at 16001 S. U.S. 30, sells handguns, rifles, shotguns, binoculars and other optics, ammunition, gun safes, hunting and shooting apparel, and other shooting sports supplies. It's been based in Plainfield for 12 years and is owned by Mark Daniels.  Mega Sports is among the top sales tax generators in the village, and this will push their numbers even higher, …

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