Vice Lord's Stabbing Victim Was Just 14: Cops

The arrest of a Naperville Vice Lord Saturday stemmed from stabbing a 14-year-old boy in the stomach, police said.

Jason Yantz, 22, was booked into the Will County jail on charges of aggravated battery. He was released hours later on a $30,000 bond.

Yantz allegedly stabbed the teen March 8 in the area of Siegmund Street and Fifth Avenue. He was riding in a car with four others when one of them threw a bottle at another vehicle, police said.

When the three occupants of the other vehicle —including the 14-year-old — got out to assess the damage, Yantz and his companions pulled up on them, police said. Yantz and the other four then reportedly chased the teen. When they caught up to him, Yantz allegedly stuck him in the stomach with a pocket knife.

East Joliet firefighters transported the teen to Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, where he spent the night before he was released from care.

“After weeks of investigating,” detectives secured a warrant for Yantz’s arrest. The warrant identifies him as a “Vice Lord gang member.”

The warrant listed a Crest Hill address for Yantz but court records show he has since moved to Naperville.