Another Joliet Bar Fight For Hickory Street Resident: JPD

JOLIET, IL — Six weeks after being released from the Will County Jail, 36-year-old Joliet resident Jerry Leon Patton beat up another man inside a Joliet tavern on the city's west side, according to Will County prosecutors.

On Nov. 17, Patton, who lives in the 0 to 100 block of South Hickory Street, attacked a Joliet man at Bobby's Tap in the 1100 block of Plainfield Road, according to the criminal complaint filed this week at the Will County Courthouse.

For the incident at Bobby's Tap, Patton is charged with two counts of aggravated battery following the Joliet police investigation.

Patton caused bodily harm to the Bobby's Tap patron "in that said defendant punched (the victim) in the head," the complaint stated.

Will County Judge Ken Zelazo signed the warrant authorizing Patton's arrest, and the judge has set Patton's latest bail at $100,000.

Patton is 6-foot-5, 240 lbs, and his place of employment is unknown to the Joliet Police Department, according to court files.

Joliet Patch just wrote about Patton for another crime story published on Sept. 22, headlined: "City Tavern Fight: Man From Hickory St. Faces Felonies."

For that story, Patch reported that Patton was wanted by the Joliet police following a fight that happened in July at the Joliet City Tavern at 1329 West Jefferson St.

According to the complaint in the City Tavern incident, Patton is charged with two counts of aggravated battery and one count of disorderly conduct.

Patton "without legal justification ... caused great bodily harm" to a Joliet man by striking the man in the head" while the victim was at Joliet City Tavern, on July 16, court document show.

Inside City Tavern, on July 16, Patton "made statements" about a specific woman's sexuality, "and threatened physical harm in such unreasonable manner as to alarm or disturb ... (her) and to provoke a breach of the peace," the complaint indicated.

In that case, Patton was released from the Will County Jail on Oct. 5, the same day he surrendered to authorities; his bail also got reduced from $30,000 to $12,500, jail logs show.