Felix Sarver

Jurors in a Joliet murder trial were shown security camera videos on Wednesday depicting the fatal shooting of a bartender and the efforts by bar patrons to disarm the shooter.

A Will County prosecutor told the jury they will see evidence with their own eyes proving their case that a Crest Hill man committed the deadly 2018 shooting at a Joliet bar.

A woman charged with a shooting in Shorewood that damaged two homes, including one belonging to a state senator, faces a new charge of attempting to disarm a courtroom deputy.

Two men in Joliet may have been shot from someone on a passing motorcycle, police said. 

A Joliet man has been charged with firing a gun in the direction of his ex-girlfriend and prosecutors alleged he endangered multiple people in the incident.

Joliet police officers are investigating two separate shootings that occurred on Vine Street and Des Plaines Street in the past week.

The Will County State’s Attorney’s Office is expected to go to court Monday for an emergency motion to kick a Joliet City Council member out of office based on a claim that he did not fulfill the residency requirement for the election. 

The office of Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow, who endorsed a candidate running in the same election as Joliet City Council member Juan Moreno, has filed a lawsuit to remove Moreno from office based on residency issues.

The Will County Sheriff’s Office is refusing to release police reports regarding an investigation of theft at a nonprofit organization despite a request their disclosure by the Illinois Attorney General’s Office.

Closing arguments were held in the case a Joliet man charged with the 2021 first-degree murder of Diego Arriaga, 17, who was found shot to death in the parking lot of Blue Kangaroo laundromat in Joliet.

Federal officials have yet to disclose whether they’ve been involved in reports of immigration enforcement activity in Joliet, including one that was alleged to have occurred at the Will County Courthouse.

The 44-year-old man who suffered multiple stab wounds in Joliet has been hospitalized in serious condition but his injuries are not considered life threatening, police said.

U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood said ICE did not provide any public safety or other data to “justify increased operations” in Illinois or any metrics the agency “plans to use to determine when the surge will end.”

Joliet police detectives have identified a person of interest in the investigation of an armed robbery last Saturday at Circle K gas station.

Joliet city officials and Joliet Junior College are seeking to explore the creation of a public safety institute for the education and training of police officers, firefighters and other emergency responders.