Jilted Boyfriend Keeps Bothering Ex and New Lover, Even After Cops Show Up: Police

JOLIET, IL — A Joliet woman’s former boyfriend kept sending texts asking to get back together and repeatedly made threatening phone calls to her new boyfriend — and persisted with his nonsense even after the cops showed up, police said.

Ronald Meimers, 52, and the 47-year-old woman he decided to bother have been broken up for months, police said, and he has since moved to California. Meimers was reportedly back in town on business and was staying at the Motel 6 on McDonough Street when he allegedly started texting her about reuniting with him Saturday morning.

Meimers texted the woman six times before making threatening phone calls to the 54-year-old man with whom she is currently involved, police said. Meimers then allegedly upped the ante by heading over to the Marquette Court house where his former lover and her new boyfriend were so he could threaten the man and call him names.

Officers went to the Motel 6 and told Meimers to cut it out. He agreed to, police said, but asked the cops to retrieve an electric cord from the Marquette Court residence for him.

The officers obliged, police said, but when they got there, the former girlfriend showed the law a text from Meimers that said, “You’re boyfriend’s cops can’t arrest me.”

The police then went back to the Motel 6 and reportedly showed Meimers that they could in fact arrest him.

Meimers was charged with assault and making harassing telephone calls. He was released on his own recognizance.