Crime & Safety

Joliet Woman Keeps Calling 911 Until Cops Finally Arrest Her: Police

The woman shouted, cursed, demanded to talk to the chief and falsely accused her live-in lover of committing various crimes, police said.

A Joliet woman kept calling 911 to shout and curse at dispatchers, complain about the cops, falsely accuse her live-in lover of various crimes, and demand to speak to the chief, police said, and only stopped when officers went to her trailer a final time to arrest her.

Jennifer Kafka, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly making repeated calls to the city’s emergency dispatch center.

The cops were sent to Kafka’s Criswell Drive trailer about 6:30 p.m. Saturday and found that county deputies were already there to serve her live-in lover with a protective order and to tell him to go away, police said.

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While officers were there, Kafka “pulled out her cell phone and called 911,” police said, and proceeded to complain that no one was making her boyfriend leave. The officers reportedly told her to stop or they would arrest her.

But Kafka did not stop, police said, and called 911 again, this time claiming her boyfriend, who by then had walked off into the evening, had her keys. She also reportedly demanded the dispatcher put the police chief on the phone, and then said her car had been stolen.

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Moments later Kafka called 911 yet again, police said. She was allegedly “yelling and cursing at the call-taker,” insisted her life had been threatened and accused her boyfriend of stealing her car.

Kafka was once more told she would be arrested if she kept calling the emergency number, police said, but that did not discourage her from doing so. Officers reportedly then went to her home and she showed them that the driver’s side window of her car was broken.

Kafka accused her boyfriend of smashing the window, police said, but a neighbor emerged and informed officers Kafka had actually done it.

That was apparently the last straw, as the cops arrested Kafka. She was later released on her own recognizance.

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