Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Krista Zarbock, an employee of the Furry Babies, confirmed the 2-month-old chihuahua was back; Joliet police could not be reached for comment.
The tiny puppy snatched from a pet store in the Louis Joliet Mall Friday night has been returned safely, a store employee said Monday night. Krista Zarbock, who works for the Furry Babies store, was the first to sound the alarm about the theft of the 2-month-old blue chihuahua, contacting media outlets on Saturday and posting a note and photos on the Joliet Patch Facebook page. A subsequent story posted on Joliet Patch generated dozens of leads, Joliet Police Chief Mike Trafton said Monday. Although the details of the 1.5-pound female dog's return weren't available from police Monday night, Zarbock posted this note on Joliet Patch's Facebook site at about 10 p.m. Monday: "Our Chihuahua is safe!!! Thank you to the Joliet Police Department, …
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Louis Joliet Mall
3340 Mall Loop Dr, Joliet, IL
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Terion Steward has admitted he shot at a car whose passengers were allegedly threatening his friend, but the other suspects remain at large, Joliet police say.
Update/3:50 p.m. Jan. 17: Terion D. Steward, 19, 460 Water St., Joliet, has been arrested and charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and aggravated discharge of a firearm in connection with a Tuesday afternoon shooting in the 200 block of North Eastern Avenue. Cmdr. Rich Demick said officers interviewing residents in the wake of the 3:30 p.m. exchange of gunfire located one witness who said Steward, who was angered by a light blue-colored car that kept circling the block, announced, "If that car drive around here again, I'm going to buck (shoot) at him." When the car returned, Steward took three shots at the vehicle and someone in the car returned fire, Demick said. When questioned by police, Steward said the car had stopped a …
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Joliet police said they believe the incident, which involved a 14-year-old male touching the young boy's penis and having the boy touch him, only occurred once.
A 14-year-old boy has been arrested for inappropriately touching a 4-year-old and persuading the young boy to touch him, Joliet police said. The incident took place at about 1:30 p.m. Dec. 29, and was reported to police on Dec. 30, after the victim told his mother about the sexual contact, Cmdr. Rich Demick said. The victim was interviewed through the Will County Child Advocacy Center and told a child psychologist that the teen had touched his penis and had instructed him to touch the suspect's penis, Demick said. It was a single episode that occurred at the victim's house, and police do not believe the child had been molested previously, he said. The 14-year-old was taken into custody on Jan. 3 and charged with aggravated criminal sexual …
Joliet police say the pair approached the man as he walked on Taylor Street, told him they had a gun and demanded his wallet.
A Joliet man walking in the Cathedral Area at about 6:40 p.m. Tuesday was robbed of his wallet by two teens, police said. The 49-year-old victim was in the area of Taylor and William streets when he was approached by the pair, who asked him where he lived, Joliet Police Cmdr. Rich Demick said. When he declined to answer, one of the teens told him he had a gun and demanded that he hand over his wallet, which he did, Demick said. They then fled on foot, he said. No gun was actually displayed, and there was no information available on the contents of the wallet or how much the victim might have lost, Demick said. The suspects are described as being black, standing about 5-foot-7 and weighing about 140 pounds. DON'T MISS THE LATEST JOLIET NEWS…
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Taylor St & N William St, Joliet, IL
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Monday, January 7, 2013
The front doors of the Citgo store were pried open, but a security video shows the masked suspect leaving empty-handed, Joliet police said.
A man wearing a ski mask backed his truck up to the front door of a Joliet Citgo gas station, attached a cable to the door handle and stepped on the gas, successfully prying the store entrance open, Joliet Police Cmdr. Rich Demick said. All of the action was caught on a security tape at about 3 a.m. Sunday, as was the burglar's entrance into the building at 91 Airport Drive, Demick said. What's not clear is what spooked the suspect and caused him to depart before taking anything from the station. The video "shows the masked man looking inside the store," and then almost immediately leaving, Demick said. A security alarm alerted Joliet police, who arrived to find the doors pried open, he said. DON'T MISS THE LATEST JOLIET NEWS. SUBSCRIBE TO…
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K.B. Citgo #7
91 Airport Dr, Joliet, IL
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Shoppers disrupted by melee; alleged combatants charged with mob action.
Black Friday shopping got a bit dicey in the wee hours of the morning, Nov. 23 at Louis Joliet Mall, according to police. Officers from the Joliet Police Department were called to break up a brawl that allegedly started at Panera Bread and spilled out into the mall. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, it all started as a quarrel between four girls, and then their boyfriends entered the fray. Read the full article here. Will County jail reports show the charges ranged from mob action in combination with aggravated battery and one for resisting arrest. Along with a 16-year-old girl, two Joliet residents were arrested by Joliet police and taken to the Will County jail: From Plainfield, Joliet police arrested two men, who were booked into …
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Joliet police have asked for a grand jury to investigate a missing person case opened the same day Linda Fellenbaum's family reported that she had disappeared.
Joliet police detectives have asked for a grand jury to investigate a missing person, a theft and the theft of a gun related to a case filed the same day local woman Linda Fellenbaum's disappearance was reported, according to court papers. Circumstances described in the Nov. 6 motion to appoint a grand jury and grand jury investigators—the theft and the theft of a firearm—match allegations made in the Fellenbaum case. Before the mother of three vanished on Oct. 21, her live-in boyfriend, 40-year-old Donald Wolak, reportedly went to the police and told officers she stole a "large sum of cash" and one of his handguns. Fellenbaum, 33, returned to Wolak's 3608 Crockett Court home five days later, on Oct. 21, police said. Wolak expected her to …
Monday, October 15, 2012
Amrut Patel, charged with criminal sexual abuse, also allegedly exposed himself to the 15-year-old girl, according to the Joliet police.
The manager of the Star Inn Motel in Joliet has been arrested for allegedly exposing himself and groping a 15-year-old girl who was staying at the Jefferson Street business. Patel B. Amrut, 50, who lives at the 2219 W. Jefferson St. motel, was arrested Friday and charged with criminal sexual abuse with force in connection with the incident that occurred in June, Joliet police Cmdr. Brian Benton said. The victim told police that Amrut exposed his genitals to her and fondled her breasts in the motel office, Benton said. Both she and Patel were interviewed at the time, and the case was referred to the Will County State's Attorney's Office, he said. Charges were filed last week and Patel arrested on Friday. Patel was released from the Will …
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Star Inn
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Driver fled after multi-vehicle crash at Route 59 and Caton Farm Road.
One person was taken to Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet Saturday after a hit-and-run crash at Caton Farm Road and Route 59, Joliet police said. A spokesman for the Joliet Police Department's west substation said four to five cars were involved in the crash around 3:15 p.m. He said details were unavailable on the crash late Saturday afternoon, but did say the offending driver fled the scene of the accident. Police did not have any information on the patient's condition immediately following the crash. On Saturday night, Joliet police did not respond to followup calls by Patch seeking information on the suspect vehicle and victim's condition.
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Friday, September 21, 2012
Joliet police found Judianne Pace in the parking lot of Sam's Club on Larkin Avenue; she told an officer she was fine and not in any danger or trouble.
A Mississippi woman whose cell phone last registered in Joliet has been located in town. Judianne Pace, who was reported missing Sept. 6 and reportedly hadn't been heard from since Aug. 31, was discovered in the parking lot of Sam's Club, 321 S. Larkin Ave., by a Joliet police officer, according to a story published online by WLBT-TV in Jackson, Miss. Pace, of Rankin County, Miss., told the officer she was fine and not in any danger or trouble, the story said. She also contacted her family, who took down their missing person Facebook page and posted a note on Pace's Facebook page announcing she had been found. Friends and family members had been posting messages there urging the 34-year-old woman to get in touch and exchanging information…
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Sam's Club
321 S Larkin Ave, Joliet, IL
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Leslie
5:14 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
Couldn't agree with you more JC! more ›