Child-Abusing Former Cop Jailed in Joliet: Police

JOLIET, IL — A former sheriff’s deputy from Indiana facing charges that he viciously beat his infant son was captured in Mokena.

Curtis Ray Jones was booked into the Will County jail Friday and shipped back to Porter County, Indiana, Thursday to faces felony charges of battery to a child younger than 14, aggravated battery and neglect of a dependent.

Jones was a Porter County deputy from 1996 until he resigned in 2005, the sheriff’s office said in a press release.

“The charges and arrest stem from an incident that took place at Jones’ residence in rural Porter Township on July 24, 2016,” the sheriff’s office said. “Jones’ then 7 month old son was transported to a Hobart Hospital and later transported to Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago when he showed signs of neurological damage and swelling of the brain.”

The charges were filed against Jones on Thursday but he took off from Indiana, the sheriff’s office said. The police then “received information that Jones ... was staying in Mokena, Illinois, with his new girlfriend.”

The Mokena police arrested Jones, who remains in custody at the Porter County jail.

Curtis Ray Jones | image via Will County Sheriff's Department