Disturbance At McDonald's Prompts Police Search In Plainfield

PLAINFIELD, IL —A previous arrestee ran off into the darkness following a disturbance late Wednesday at the McDonald's near Route 30 and 135th Street, but Plainfield police said he was taken into custody Thursday morning.

Plainfield Police Sgt. Mike Fisher said officers responded to the McDonald's after reports of people possibly damaging vehicles, spitting on vehicles and yelling. Fisher said witnesses also told police they believed a suspect might have a gun, but police were unable to verify reports of a weapon, and no weapon was found when a suspect was taken into custody on Thursday morning.

Police who arrived recognized one of the suspects on the scene as 19-year-old John S. Keough, who has previously been arrested by Plainfield police. Fisher said Keough fled on foot, heading towards the nearby Harvest Glen subdivision.

Police searched into the late-night hours for Keough but were unable to locate him Wednesday night. Fisher said Keough was taken into custody Thursday morning after being located by police behind his home.

Keough faces additional charges of disorderly conduct, criminal damage to property and resisting arrest, according to police, who arrested him on similar charges in April. Booking information in that incident listed his address in the 12800 block of Shelly Lane. Court record indicate his bond in that case was originally set at $60,000 before being reduced to $38,800, and he was in custody from April 8 until posting 10 percent of that bond on July 17. As a condition of his bond he was barred from contact with an individual and ordered to have "absolute sobriety" and submit to drug testing.

Keough's pre-trial date in the April charges is Aug. 15, according to court records.

The McDonald's at Route 30 and 135th Street has been the site of prior disturbances. In early 2018, a witness was shot after reportedly seeing two people battering a victim after "some type of sale" turned bad outside the McDonald's and following them. In that incident, neither the battery victim nor the teen who was shot suffered life-threatening injuries.

The McDonald's location opened in February 2014.