Ron Tirapelli Ford Customer Arrested By Shorewood Police Following $13,568 Repair Bill

SHOREWOOD, IL — The Shorewood Police Department has made its first arrest of the year — and possibly its only arrest of the year at the Ron Tirapelli Ford dealership, 4335 West Jefferson Street.

A 33-year-old Joliet man, Francis S. Eaton, was taken away in handcuffs on criminal charges of deceptive practices involving bad checks.

Eaton's arrest happened Monday around 11:45 a.m. The Joliet resident comes from the 500 block of Springwood Drive, the arrest log showed.

According to Shorewood police's arrest summary, the officers were called to Ron Tirapelli Ford in reference to a fraud report. At the auto dealership, the officers spoke to the general manager, who told the Shorewood police that Eaton wrote a check in the sum of $13,568 from a closed account for the cost of his repairs.

Several attempts to reach out to Eaton to resolve the issue went unanswered, the arrest report noted. Later, Eaton showed up at Ron Tirapelli, and the police officers asked him what happened with his check. He explained that the bank closed his account because the dollar amount raised red flags, according to the police.

Eaton was arrested for the crime of deceptive practices. Shorewood police officials said that the Joliet man was given a citation and released with a court appearance.

Eaton also spent two days in the Will County Jail in October after Bolingbrook police arrested him on a temporary police hold for LaSalle County authorities. At that time, the jail showed Eaton as living in Lacon, a tiny community about 30 miles north of Peoria.