JOLIET, IL — Will County Judge Chrystel Gavlin has ruled in favor of the Will County State's Attorney's Office petition to deny pretrial for Wilmington's Daryl Dunn following an attack upon Joliet's 57-year-old inmate Dustin Megrant in recent days at the Will County Jail, court files show. Prosecutors have charged Megrant with aggravated battery.
According to the prosecutors, Will County Sheriff's deputies responded on April 23 to the jail for an attack. Dustin Megrant stated he was punched in the face by another inmate while they were getting ready to eat dinner on April 19.
Megrant stated he put his food tray down and went to
get a chair, when he came back his food tray was moved and that is when the defendant, Dunn, punched him on the left side of his face, court records reflect.
Deputies met with the Dunn and he stated Megrant was "talking shit" so he punched him in the face, prosecutors revealed.
"The defendant admitted to throwing the first and only punch," prosecutors pointed out.
The video from J-pod shows the defendant striking Megrant
one time with a closed fist. It was determined that Megrant's orbital bone was fractured, court records show.
Last August, three months after Joliet Patch broke the news surrounding a serious injury crash at West Jefferson Street and Joyce Road, which badly injured a Walmart employee who was leaving work, Will County prosecutors charged Dunn, a 60-year-old Wilmington motorcyclist, with multiple felonies.
The Will County grand jury indictment for Dunn was for two counts of aggravated driving under the influence and one count of possessing drug paraphernalia. According to court records, Dunn, after using cocaine, drove a blue Harley-Davidson SOF Softail motorcycle on Joyce Road in Joliet on May 16, 2025. The charges show that Dunn has previous DUI convictions from 2020 out of Rutherford County, Tennessee, 2014 in Elkhart County, Indiana and 2011 in Will County and "said violation being a fourth violation."
Dunn's second aggravated DUI count indicates "the defendant's driving privileges were revoked or suspended" at the time he drove his Harley in Joliet on Joyce Road while under the influence of cocaine on May 16, 2025.
The drug paraphernalia charge indicates Dunn "knowingly possessed a glass pipe with the intent to use it in inhaling a controlled substance into the human body" on May 16.
As for Megrant, he was the subject of a Joliet Patch crime story on March 25 headlined: One Of Joliet's Most Arrested Men Faces New Domestic Violence Charges, SAFE-T-Act Detention Sought
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