Silver Spoon Vandalized, Joliet Police Make Arrest

JOLIET, IL — A 36-year-old man from Calumet City got arrested late Wednesday night after he used a large garbage can to smash and destroy the glass windows at a long-time Joliet sit-down restaurant, the Silver Spoon, according to Joliet police reports.

Joliet police spokesman Dwayne English noted that Lethaniel Jones was booked into the Will County jail on felony charges of criminal damage to property and obstructing justice.

Shortly before 11 p.m., Joliet officers working the overnight shift were sent to the Silver Spoon restaurant at 1601 West Jefferson St. after learning that someone was breaking the windows of the business with a garbage can.

The officers counted nine windows were shattered from the garbage can that was found on the nearby sidewalk.

"Officers identified Jones as a suspect. Officers located Jones nearby in the 1500 block of West Jefferson Street and placed him into custody without incident," English announced.

Officers brought Jones back to the Joliet Police Department, where he refused to cooperate with booking procedures, English noted.

He was then taken to the Will County Adult Detention Facility.

This marks the second major act of violence at the Jefferson Centre, which is owned by well-known Joliet area commercial real estate investor John Bays.

On May 21, someone fired numerous gunshots into the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services offices at 1619 W. Jefferson St.

In October, five months after someone walked up to the building in the middle of the night and shot the building up, Joliet police charged Rickey Darnell Evans with the violent crime.

Evans now faces one count of intimidation, two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and one count of criminal damage to property.