Crest Hill Man Backs Into Joliet Squad To Avoid Arrest: JPD

JOLIET — For the fourth time since April 2023, 22-year-old Crest Hill resident Deon King finds himself lodged in Will County's Jail. This time, Crest Hill police helped Joliet police find the criminal suspect after authorities say King backed into his car into a Joliet police car and sped down a busy one-way street, Center Street, to avoid being captured.

After evading Joliet police, arrest reports show, Crest Hill police found King easily: back at his apartment unit in the 1700 block of Arbor Lane. On Thursday, King was booked into the Will County Jail around supper time on two charges of aggravated fleeing the police, two counts of aggravated assault, violation of pretrial conditions and resisting a peace officer.

The incident leading to King's capture began just after 10 p.m. on Wednesday.

According to Joliet police spokesman Dwayne English:

• At 10:09 p.m., the officers on patrol near North Joliet Street and Cass Street saw a Ford Fusion traveling westbound on Cass Street that matched the description of the vehicle which had fled from Joliet police near Plainfield Road and Black Road approximately three hours earlier.
• The officers followed the vehicle and saw it pull into the Wendy’s Restaurant drive-thru at 104 North Center Street. When the Joliet police tried to conduct a traffic stop in the drive-thru line, King put his vehicle in reverse and backed into the front of a squad car.
• King then put his car in drive and sped off, driving over a curb and striking the rear of someone else's vehicle in the drive -thru.
• King drove through the parking lot at a high rate of speed, nearly striking an officer, English noted.
• After leaving the Wendy's, King drove the wrong way, going southbound, on the one-way Center Street and then turned eastbound on Oneida Street.
• English said that Joliet police chose not to pursue the fleeing vehicle.
• A short time later, Crest Hill Police found King in the 1700 block of Arbor Lane, which is where he lives. Officers responded there and placed King into custody without incident. King’s vehicle was towed from the scene.