'Dizzy' Cocaine User Sees Shadows, Fires Bullet Into Wall: Police

JOLIET — Corey Nobles, a 56-year-old twice-convicted cocaine dealer, was arrested Friday following an overnight gun discharge in his house in the 100 block of South Joliet Street, and will not be getting out of the Will County Jail anytime soon, Judge Dan Kennedy determined.

Joliet police arrested Nobles around 3:45 a.m. on two charges of aggravated unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition, reckless discharge of a firearm and unlawful use of weapon by a felon.

Over the weekend, the Will County State's Attorney's Office presented the chief judge with a pretrial detention petition, and Kennedy agreed it was sufficient to keep Nobles in jail while his criminal charges are pending.

According to the court files submitted by the prosecutors, Joliet police were called to the 100 block of South Joliet Street for a person using cocaine and seeing shadows. Nobles was ordered by the officers to put his gun down and exit, court files show. He complied, and his roommate also exited, too.

Joliet police recovered a .45-caliber handgun from the living room coffee table, and one spent shell casing was found near the front door, according to court documents. A bullet hole in the wall was also discovered.

Court files indicate that when Nobles was interviewed by Joliet police following the shooting, he told them that he had three women over, and he was smoking crack and snorting cocaine. He reportedly told Joliet police the girls heard noises, and that he bought a gun a week earlier from a friend. "He was seeing shadows when standing near the front door. He turned toward the kitchen and fired one shot," according to court documents.

At the scene, the court records note, Nobles was bleeding from his mouth and nose, and he was dizzy, prompting the Joliet Fire Department to bring him to the hospital. Nobles has 2017 and 2009 Will County convictions for possession with intent to deliver, and he was out of jail for a pending armed habitual offender criminal charge from 2024.

"The defendant, having been on pretrial release, having admitted to using cocaine, and having discharging a firearm inside a residence while others were also inside the residence, is a danger to himself and others," the prosecution's petition declared.