Crime & Safety
Hold on to Your Seat (Belt) Shorewood Police Blotter
You don't go driving around Shorewood without wearing a seat belt. Not unless you're looking for trouble you don't.
Feb. 2
Seat belt stop
The cops pulled over a Joliet man for driving around without wearing his seat belt and found out he didn't have a valid license either, said.
Mario Garcia, 30, of 7017 Monmouth Drive was stopped shortly before midnight in the parking lot of the on Brook Forest Avenue.
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Garcia was arrested on a charge of driving while license suspended and cited for allegedly failing to signal.
Garcia was released from custody after posting bond.
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The (allegedly) unbelted
An Aurora man went to jail after the cops stopped the car he was riding in because someone wasn't wearing a seat belt, police said.
Michael Burns, 31, of 3014 Bar Harbour Road was taken into custody about 1:30 p.m. at the BP Amoco station on East Jefferson Street.
Burns was wanted on a Kendall County warrant charging him with traffic offenses, police said.
Burns was taken to the Will County jail in Joliet.
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