Crime & Safety
Man Made Death Threats to Insurance Company, Police Say
Steven Davis was charged with telephone harassment for comments he allegedly made to the Western-Southern Life Insurance Co., Joliet police said.
A Joliet man, fighting over the phone with his grandmother's insurance company, threatened to "whack everyone in the office and bury their families," Joliet Police Lt. Brian Dupuis said.
Steven C. Davis, 27, 466 Water St., was arrested Friday night and charged with felony telephone harassment in connection with the death threats he issued to a representative of the Western-Southern Life Insurance Co. in Cincinnati, Dupuis said.
Company officials, armed with an audio recording of Davis making the threats, contacted Joliet police, he said. They, in turn, issued a warrant and arrested Davis.
Dupuis said he did not know what argument Davis had with the company other than "apparently he wasn't getting the answers he wanted."
Davis is being held in the Will County jail in lieu of $35,000 bond.
According to jail records, Davis has been arrested several times in the past few years, including on charges of manufacture/delivery of cannabis and resisting/obstructing a peace officer in December 2012 and for aggravated battery in June 2009 and November 2008.
Company officials, armed with an audio recording of Davis making the threats, contacted Joliet police, he said. They, in turn, issued a warrant and arrested Davis.
Dupuis said he did not know what argument Davis had with the company other than "apparently he wasn't getting the answers he wanted."
Davis is being held in the Will County jail in lieu of $35,000 bond.
According to jail records, Davis has been arrested several times in the past few years, including on charges of manufacture/delivery of cannabis and resisting/obstructing a peace officer in December 2012 and for aggravated battery in June 2009 and November 2008.
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