Joliet's 'Bo Dome' Burglars May Lose SUV: Forfeiture Complaint

JOLIET, IL — Joliet criminal defendant Kayla Patton, 34, of Manhattan Road faces the prospect of parting ways with her 2011 GMC Acadia because Patton used her SUV with Wilmington resident Devin Goodwin to commit a burglary at Joliet's long abandoned U.S. Steel property on Collins Street, a civil forfeiture complaint outlined.

Joliet Patch broke the news of Patton's arrest in early May.

According to the civil forfeiture complaint, filed by the Will County State's Attorney's Office:

On May 8, Joliet police were called to the U.S. Steel property off Collins Street where Officer Humphrey discovered the entry gate was cut open and a white GMC Acadia, owned by Patton, was parked on the property.

Joliet police searched the U.S. Steel property and located Patton, who wore black gloves, and her friend Goodwin, who had his hands coated and smelled of mechancial grease and oil.

Officers found numerous tools on the ground inside the building next to the breaker panels plus two small battery-operated lanterns that were illuminated, court records show. Police found one bucket of strands of copper metal that showed fresh cut marks on each end.

As for Patton's sports utility vehicle, it was used during the commision of a burglary by Patton and Goodwin and that's why the State's Attorney's Office wants a judge to confiscate it.

The vehicle should be sold at a public auction, destroyed or given to another police agency in Illinois, the forfeiture complaint asked.

In recent months, Joliet's new Mayor Terry D'Arcy campaigned on a platform of using the former U.S. Steel property for a future youth sports tournament for baseball and softball games. He noted that he's friends with former baseball star Bo Jackson and perhaps Bo Jackson would be willing to put one of his Bo Dome sports complexes at Joliet's shuttered steel mill site off Collins Street.

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