Joliet Man & His Mom Squabble With Cops After Threats Traded With Neighbor Over Pit Bull Problems: Police

A Joliet man and his mother scuffled with cops trying to settle a neighbor dispute over loose pit bulls, police said.

An officer was sent over to East Cass Street near Scribner Street about 11:30 p.m. Monday to look into a complaint about loose dogs and someone threatening to shoot people.

A man there told the officer he was sitting on his porch when his neighbor, 21-year-old Julio Deharo of 1507 E. Cass, let his pit bulls out of a kennel, police said. The man complained that the dogs came onto his property and told how he feared they would attack him, police said.

The man reportedly told Deharo if he did not get the dogs out his yard he would shoot them, police said, and Deharo replied that if the neighbor shot his dogs, he would shoot the neighbors entire family.

The officer then went over to Deharo's home and the young man admitted to making the threat because he "lost his cool," police said. When the officer tried to handcuff Deharo while arresting him on a charge of assault, he struggled and his mother, Antonia Bustamante-Arredondo, 53, pulled him inside their house.

The officer warned that he would shoot Deharo with a Taser if he continued to resist, police said, and when Deharo continued to resist he got hit with the Taser. While this was going on, police said, Bustamante-Arredondo jumped on the officer's back.

Deharo was charged with assault, resisting a peace officer, obstructing a peace officer, allowing a barking dog and allowing a dog to run loose. Bustamante-Arredondo was charged with obstructing a peace officer.

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