Crime & Safety
Joliet Woman Flails at Cops With Urine-Soaked Sweatpants, Throws feces: Police
The woman broke two windows at a home owned by the Housing Authority of Joliet, police said.

A Joliet woman warned the cops they’d be sorry if they took off her handcuffs, police said, and then proceeded to show them she was right.
When she was freed from her cuffs, Gloria Spiva, 54, of 1111 Magnolia Ave. allegedly flailed at police with her urine-soaked sweatpants and “flicked feces at officers” after spreading it on the walls.
Spiva was in police custody following an early Saturday morning arrest on a charge of criminal damage to property. She allegedly broke two windows at a Cardinal Lane property owned by the Housing Authority of Joliet.
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After she was arrested, Spiva told an officer, “You bitch, go f—k yourself. Keep the cuffs on or you’re not going to like it,” police said.
But officers uncuffed Spiva anyway, police said, at which time she relieved herself in her sweatpants and swung them at the cops, then smeared feces at them and sent it in their direction.
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Spiva was subsequently charged with obstructing justice and aggravated battery to a police officer. She was taken to the Will County jail.
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