JOLIET, IL — A 45-year-old Joliet man with a long criminal history must remain incarcerated in the Will County Jail following his latest arrest, this time by the Joliet Police Department for eight charges of battery, domestic battery and aggravated battery.
A Will County judge ruled in favor of the Will County State’s Attorney’s Office of Jim Glasgow in regard to the March 20 arrest of Vincent Turner, who lived in the 500 block of Elmwood Avenue.
According to the petition to deny Turner’s pretrial release:
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“Finally, defendant told officers that at no time did he touch either female,” prosecutors informed the judge.
According to Joliet police, the 68-year-old woman suffered a swollen forehead with a knot and the second woman suffered a swollen right eye, bruises, scratches to her shin, red marks on the side of her face and abrasions to her forehead.
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A Joliet police CSI took photographs of the injuries to both women.
As for Turner, he has prior convictions for two gun offenses, aggravated discharge of a gun in 2012 in Will County and reckless discharge of a gun, in Will County, from 2000. He also has convictions in Will County for aggravated battery to a police officer from 1995 and aggravated assault from 1998.
“It is alleged that the defendant’s pretrial release poses a real and present threat to the safety of any person or persons in the community,” argued Will County’s prosecutors in their successful petition to keep Turner locked away in the Will County Jail during the pretrial phase of his eight criminal charges.
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