'My Children Need To Be Protected:' No Pretrial Release For Joliet Man

JOLIET, IL — A 34-year-old Joliet man from the St. Pat's Area will stay in Will County Jail's for an indefinite amount of time in connection with four misdemeanor charges of violating an order of protection. On Jan. 16, Adam Biesemeyer, who comes from the 1200 block of Morgan Street, was taken into custody by Joliet police and booked into the county jail for the fourth time since April.

Last October, a Will County judge granted a 37-year-old Joliet woman an order of protect to keep Biesemeyer away from her and her children.

"He hit me and threatened to beat my son's head in with a hammer," the woman's order of protection reads. "Said he was going to beat my 6-year-old. He hit my older sons. I called the police and he was arrested ... He tried to stab my oldest son in the neck. DCFS came to my home at midnight. My children need to be protected."

This month, the Will County State's Attorney's Office utilized the new SAFE-T Act to convince a judge to keep Biesemeyer incarcerated for violating his orders of proetection.

According to Assistant State's Attorney Donna Webdell: Joliet police were called to the house on Morgan Street on Jan. 16 because Biesemeyer had violated the order of protection that he was served on Nov. 20.

On Jan. 16, the woman told Joliet police she received a text message photo from an unknown number around 8:15 p.m. and the photo "was of a person taking a photo of their waist area, while holding their penis in their left hand. The left hand had a tattoo visible. The victim supplied officers with a previous photo of the defendant, which showed the same tattoo in the same location."

The woman also informed Joliet officers that she received voicemails from Biesemeyer just two days earlier and in one of his voice messages he said, "I love you, sorry." Biesemeyer also told her in the message that she can contact him, but he cannot contact her because of his court order.

On Jan. 15, the woman also received three phone calls between 3 and 3:45 p.m. and Biesemeyer said "something about someone being killed and that he may be extradited to Georgia. She informed officers once she realized it was the defendant she hung up the phone," court documents show. "It should be noted that upon the defendant's arrest, he made random statements regarding people involved in the mafia and biker gangs."

Will County prosecutors asked for Biesemeyer's indefinite incarceration following his Jan. 16 arrest because he was arrested for three counts of domestic battery last Oct. 28 and the victim is the same as in this case, Webdell pointed out. As a result, Biesemeyer was currently on pretrial release awaiting trial for his pending domestic battery charges.

"The defendant has a history of violating the orders of any court or governmental entity," the prosecutor declared, adding that Biesemeyer failed to show up for court on Nov. 29, and on Dec. 18, he again failed to appear in court and "the defendant also failed to report to pretrial services as ordered by the court in that case. Additionally, the new charges are all violations of court orders in that they are violations of orders of protection ... The people submit that defendant has been, is, and is potentially a threat to the victim in this case."