Sex Offender Lives Near Channahon Junior High School: Complaint

CHANNAHON — After spending three days in the Will County Jail, a 25-year-old Channahon resident and convicted sex offender has been released from custody and he will be obligated to find a new place to live, according to his criminal charges.

In recent days, the Will County State's Attorney's Office of Jim Glasgow filed charges against Miguel G. Perez, a Channahon sex offender residing within 500 feet of a school, court files show.

The Channahon Police Department investigated the case against Perez, who was living at 25038 West Sioux Drive in Channahon, according to court filings.

As for the complaint, Perez, "a sexual offender, knowingly resided within 500 feet of any real property comprising of any school, Channahon Junior High School, located at 24917 West Sioux Drive in Channahon."

After Monday's hearing in Courtroom 405, Perez learned from the judge that his jail detention was over. The offense is not detainable under the Illinois SAFE-T-Act, court files show.

According to files at the Will County Courthouse, in March 2024, Perez worked out a plea agreement, pleading guilty to criminal sexual abuse in connection with a Joliet crime.

Will County Judge Vincent Cornelius sentenced Perez to two years of probation. Perez was also sentenced to 28 days in the Will County Jail, but he did not have to serve that time because he had already spent 14 days in the jail awaiting trial. Perez was ordered to pay court costs of $2,794 and a probation fee of $1,200.

The initial criminal complaint from Joliet Police Detective Shawn Filipiak was filed in 2019, stating that Perez had used threat or force to have sexual relations with a teenage girl, between the ages of 13 and 16, during the time of July 5-19,2019.

One of the original charges, aggravated battery, accused Perez of trying to strangle the girl in the 100 block of Twin Oaks Drive.

In connection with this week's criminal charge, Will County court records and the Illinois State Police sex offender registry are now listing Perez's current address as being in Morris on East Green Acres Drive.