2 Cars Stolen From Joliet Found In Plainfield, Police Arrest 3 People

PLAINFIELD, IL — Three people were arrested Tuesday evening in connection to two vehicle thefts out of Joliet, Plainfield police said.

Police made the first arrest around 3:40 p.m. after conducting a traffic stop near Route 59 and Naperville Road on a blue Cadillac sedan that had been reported stolen, Sergeant Luke Ostreko told Patch. Plainfield officers charged 32-year-old Anthony Edwards, of the 700 block of North Center Street in Joliet, with possession of a stolen vehicle, possession of burglary tools and driving while license revoked.

Edwards was given a notice to appear on the charges but was taken to the Will County jail on two active no-bond warrants. Edwards' passenger, 42-year-old Angela Sepeda, of the 600 block of Madison Street in Joliet, was also brought to the jail on an active no-bond warrant.

While some officers were making the arrest, the department's dispatch center was alerted about a man who fled from a stolen black Cadillac sedan on foot, leaving the car in the middle of Route 59, just north of 127th Street, Ostreko said.

Plainfield police posted an alert around 5:45 p.m. Tuesday to ask for the community's help locating the suspect who had last been seen entering a cornfield near 127th Street and Book Road, after a search using drones and a K-9 unit from the Naperville Police Department was fruitless, Patch reported.

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Several community members reported sightings that led to police finding the man, identified as 38-year-old Alan Michael Molck, of Crest Hill, in the area near Essington Road north of Pilcher Road around 6:30 p.m., according to Ostreko.

Molck was arrested and charged with possession of a stolen vehicle and given a notice to appear before he was brought to the Will County jail on an active warrant.

Patch has reached out to police asking if the two Cadillac thefts are believed to be related.