Drunken Joliet Man Tries Picking Fights in East Side Bar, Gets in Fight With Cops Instead: Police

A drunken Joliet man looking for a barfight found one when the cops showed up, police said.

Jaime Tovar-Silva, 24, was “highly intoxicated” when officers arrived at Los Diaz bar on Meeker Avenue about 8 p.m. Monday, police said.

Bar staff reportedly called the cops because Tovar-Silva was belligerent and trying to pick fights. He allegedly made do with the cops, punching them and kicking them, and then resisting when they were putting him into handcuffs.

Tovar-Silva was taken to the Will County jail.