Wild Chase Up Route 59 Ends With 2 Crashes Outside Bank: Cops

JOLIET, IL — A Hickory Hills woman chased a couple up Route 59 and then rammed her van into the back of their car as both vehicles crashed outside a bank, police said.

The van 23-year-old Lauren Silva-Liposki was driving — and crashing — Thursday night didn’t belong to her, police said. She was charged with trespassing to a motor vehicle for allegedly failing to return the van to its owner.

Silva-Liposki used the van to chase a man and woman who were fleeing her male companion, 19-year-old Jacob Delgado of Joliet, police said.

The trouble started shortly before midnight when Delgado took a baseball bat to the front passenger-side window of the 20-year-old man’s car in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven on Cottage Street in Shorewood, according to police. The man and a 20-year-old woman reportedly drove off to get away from Delgado, and he and Silva-Liposki pursued them in the Dodge Van.

Silva-Liposki rammed the back of the car, and it went over the curb, hit a fire hydrant and ended up into the parking lot of the Harris Bank near Caton Farm Road, police said. The van also reportedly careened into the parking lot and came to rest against the bank.

All four fled from the crash but were tracked down, police said, and Silva-Liposki and Delgado were taken into custody.

Delgado was released on his own recognizance, but Silva-Liposki went to jail.