Sunday, May 19, 2013
Matthew Boban was arrested on several charges stemming from the Saturday crime spree, including driving under the influence of drugs, Illinois State Police said.
A Joliet man who stole a woman's purse and then fled in a stolen car, only to crash into a semi on Interstate 80, was arrested Saturday on a slew of charges, including driving under the influence of drugs, Illinois State Police said. Matthew J. Boban, 32, of 521 Mack, was charged after being treated at Silver Cross Medical Center in New Lenox for injuries suffered during the crash. The incident began shortly after noon Saturday when Boban allegedly snagged a woman's purse while in the parking lot of a Joliet Jewel-Osco store at 1401 W. Jefferson St. and then fled in a car taken from a friend, state police said. There was a second person in the car, but it's not known if it was the car's owner. Boban eventually made his way onto eastbound …
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Jewel-Osco
1401 W Jefferson St, Joliet, IL
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Friday, May 10, 2013
Tambara Tanzy was charged again with criminal damage to property as well as with making telephone threats after calling her estranged husband's girlfriend 82 times, police said.
One arrest was apparently not enough for Tambara Tanzy, who showed up at her estranged husband's home Thursday night and -- for the second time in a week -- slashed all four of his vehicle's tires, Joliet police said. Tanzy, 32, 606 Moran St., Joliet, was also charged with making telephone threats after calling her husband's new girlfriend 82 times, Cmdr. Al Roechner said. In the first incident on May 2, Tanzy was charged with criminal damage to property, aggravated assault, battery, domestic battery and criminal trespass to property after she allegedly cut her husband's tires, broke four windows of his home and threatened him with a knife, police said. In that incident, she was reportedly angry that the man would not return their child to…
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808 E Washington St, Joliet, IL
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The armed robbery occurred at about 1:40 p.m. Thursday in the St. Pat's neighborhood, according to Joliet police reports.
A Joliet postal carrier was robbed of his iPhone and $13 when a man threatened him with a gun while he was delivering mail Thursday afternoon in the St. Pat's neighborhood. The victim told Joliet police that he was confronted by the suspect while at a residence in the 0 to 100 block of North Cagwin Avenue at about 1:40 p.m., Cmdr. Al Roechner said. He described the suspect as a slender black man standing about 6 feet tall and weighing about 180 pounds, Roecher said. He had short braids and was wearing a black hat and a jacket with yellow and green words. Police were able to use one of the the iPhone's apps to trace and recover the device in an area near McDonough and Monroe streets, where it had been placed inside a sock and thrown away, …
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22 N Cagwin Ave, Joliet, IL
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Jarrod Marks was a "free spirit" who grew up in a tight-knit family on a South Dakota Indian reservation, niece Holly Rae Sanders said.
Jarrod Marks grew up on a small South Dakota Indian reservation among a family so close knit that when a cousin fell down a flight of stairs, he hopped on a plane and came to Joliet to help take care of her, his niece said Tuesday. But just a month after he'd arrived, something the family could not have imagined happened. Someone with a knife took Marks' life late Sunday night/early Monday morning, leaving his body on a Bluff Street sidewalk in a dark, deserted spot near the southern edge of Bicentennial Park. It's something as shocking as it is bewildering, said Sanders, whose mother was Marks' sister. "He was a really free spirit, a really open person," said Sanders, speaking from her Portland, Ore., home. "He had the biggest heart of …
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50 N Bluff St, Joliet, IL
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The 43-year-old man, stabbed multiple times sometime between late Sunday night and early Monday morning, has been identified as Jarrod W. Marks.
The man found stabbed to death near Bicentennial Park had been seen earlier in the evening drinking in a nearby parking lot, and now Joliet police are hoping to track down the people he was with, Cmdr. Brian Benton said. Jarrod W. Marks, 43, originally from South Dakota, had been living with relatives in Joliet for the last few weeks, Benton said. Police have been told that Marks was seen with several people Sunday night, hours before his body was discovered at about 6 a.m. Monday on a Bluff Street sidewalk, near Marion Street and not far from the far southern end of Bicentennial Park. Marks had been stabbed several times, but police know of no motive for the murder, Benton said. It's believed he was killed sometime late Sunday night and …
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N Bluff St & W Marion St, Joliet, IL
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Tambara Tanzy attacked her estranged husband's house and vehicle when he wouldn't return their child, Joliet police said.
A Joliet woman, angered when her estranged husband refused to return their child to her, broke windows on his house, slashed his car tires and threatened him with a knife, Joliet police said. Tambara L. Tanzy, 32, 208 Sherman Court, made three separate trips to her husband's home at 808 E. Washington St., the first occurring the afternoon of May 2, Joliet Capt. Tab Jensen said. In each case, the incident occurred and then the police were called after Tanzy had departed. Tanzy's first round involved smashing our four windows followed by cutting the victim's car tires and then returning with a knife to make threats, Jensen said. Police spoke to Tanzy by phone and later were able to take her into custody at a home in the 600 block of Dover. …
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808 E Washington St, Joliet, IL
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The case is now classified as a homicide, but the victim's identity remains undisclosed as police attempt to notify his family.
Update/posted at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday: The Will County Coroner's Office reports the victim died of multiple stab wounds. Still no identity released as Joliet police continue to try to contact the man's family. Update/posted at 4:50 p.m. Monday: The death of a 43-year-old Joliet man, whose body was found in a desolate area near the far southern end of Bicentennial Park, is being investigated as a homicide, Cmdr. Brian Benton said. The victim's identity is not being released until his family can be notified, but it is known he had recently returned to Joliet and has ties to the city, Benton said. He was not living near the area where his body was found, he said. Police are not certain when the man died but it was at least a few hours before …
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N Bluff St & W Marion St, Joliet, IL
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Jennifer Wirkus left her children, all under the age of 6, in a parking garage so she could attend a court hearing, Joliet police said.
A Crest Hill woman who left her three children, all under the age of 6, in an unlocked car while she attended a downtown Joliet court hearing has been charged by Joliet police with three counts of child endangerment. An attendant for the Ottawa Street Parking Deck, 110 N. Ottawa, discovered the situation at about 9:40 a.m. Friday when she noticed the children in the unlocked car and saw that the keys were in the ignition, Capt. Tab Jensen said. The oldest child, a 6-year-old boy, told police his mother, Jennifer N. Wirkus, 28, of 1701 Nicholson, was at a hearing at the Will County Courthouse, which is about two blocks away from the parking garage, Jensen. The children were taken into the police custody while Wirkus was tracked down at the …
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110 N Ottawa St, Joliet, IL
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Joliet Police Department
150 W Washington St, Joliet, IL
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Will County Courthouse
14 W Jefferson St, Joliet, IL
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
Police are seeking help in finding the suspects responsible for the assault, Cmdr. Brian Benton said.
A masked man driving an SUV shot at two 16-year-olds Friday afternoon, striking one in the leg, in what is believed to be a gang-related attack, Joliet Police Cmdr. Brian Benton said. The incident occurred at about 4 p.m. in the area of Ingalls Avenue and Elizabeth Street. The teens told police they were walking home from Joliet Central High School when the SUV pulled up near them and fired shots, Benton said. The driver was wearing a ski mask and there was at least one other person in the vehicle, he said. The teens gave conflicting reports on the description of the SUV, saying it was either red, green or black in color. Police believe the assault was targeted because the pair acknowledged they were associated with a gang, and that one …
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Ingalls Ave & Elizabeth St, Joliet, IL
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
A "misplaced pacifier" is being blamed for provoking the violent argument, Joliet police said.
A lost baby pacifier provoked a heated fight Tuesday in which a Joliet man allegedly punched his live-in girlfriend, pushed her into a glass picture frame and locked her out of their home while she was naked, Joliet Police Cmdr. Al Roechner said. When Reggie L. Ratliff, 33, finally allowed the woman back into their 1007 Lois Place apartment, she fled into a bedroom, dressed and called police, Roechner said. The fight took place at about 1 p.m. when Ratliff reportedly "went into a rage and attacked (the victim) because he was upset over a misplaced pacifier" used by the child they have together, he said. The woman cut her left shoulder when she was pushed into a picture frame and when she scratched his chest, he responded by punching her, …
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Brian Denewellis
2:10 pm on Friday, May 24, 2013
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