A woman testified in court on Thursday she went to the police about the fatal shooting of a Joliet teen after she was told to get rid of the vehicle linked to the incident by a man charged with the teen’s death.

Officers conducting a traffic stop determined a 15-year-old passenger allegedly possessed loaded gun stolen from Alabama, police said.

A Will County judge will decide whether a Joliet man committed first-degree murder or was acting in self-defense during a 2021 incident where a teen was shot and killed.

Two 9 mm bullets were found on the floor of a classroom at Joliet Central High School but officers who responded did not find any weapons or other “concerning items,” school officials said.

A Joliet police spokesman said a man was wanted for a case in Chicago. The specifics of the case and the warrant were "unknown," he said.

Alfonso Sanchez issued the statement Thursday after the Joliet police board approved his termination this week.

No one was injured in Friday afternoon incident on Ann Street, Joliet police said.

Raymond D. Martinez, 33, was arrested after leading police on a chase in a stolen vehicle, crashing into another car and briefly prompting nearby schools to go on lockdown, according to Joliet police.

Joliet police recovered several bullet casings at the scene.

A Joliet man remains at large on charges accusing him of driving under the influence of alcohol in a crash that caused injury to another driver and his 2-year-old daughter.

The City Council votes Tuesday whether to create the position, and city officials said they are already talking with one of the top people in the field for the job.

Joliet police officials are still investigating why a Chicago man on parole from prison chose to burglarize a home occupied by a woman and her baby. The woman shot and killed the man when he broke inside the home.

A 19-year-old driver was issued traffic citations following a crash in Joliet that caused a semitrailer to overturn and spill its large haul of rock, police said.

A Joliet man was sentenced to 23 years in prison after he was convicted of the 2019 first-degree murder of his grandmother by setting her home on fire. 

A Crest Hill man is facing more than 20 felony charges across two cases filed in Will County after he was accused of unlawfully possessing three handguns and baggies containing cocaine and fentanyl. 

No one was hurt during the emergency landing at about 5:14 p.m. near McDonough Street and on the edge of the Inwood Golf Course.

Two homes and an unoccupied vehicle in Joliet were damaged by gunfire.

Joliet police K-9 Officer Daniel Willis, a 20-year veteran of the department, died unexpectedly Monday, Aug. 12, the department said.

At least two arrests were made following a gun bust operation in Will County where members of a Venezuelan transnational gang made an appearance, prosecutors said.

Joliet police Lt. Jeremy Harrison was put on leave during an investigation by the city's inspector general, city manager says.

A Joliet man charged with strangling a woman has been taken back to jail after a Will County judge revoked his pretrial release. 

The pretrial provision of the SAFE-T Act could have kept a man in jail and potentially prevented the escalation that led to a Joliet woman’s murder, according to an advocate for domestic violence victims.

A former teacher for the Diocese of Joliet has completed his two-and-half year probation in a case where he pleaded guilty to grooming someone he thought was a minor to engage in unlawful sexual conduct.

A case where a Catholic priest was charged with placing the hair of a 13-year-old girl in his mouth in Joliet has been dismissed by Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow’s Office.

A federal judge dismissed a racial discrimination lawsuit from a former Joliet police detective who claimed a former police chief conspired with another department to have him arrested on a domestic battery charge.

One of four men charged with the gang-fueled Joliet Township shooting on Halloween in 2021 has lost his bid to suppress his statements to sheriff’s detectives.

A Will County jury has found a South Chicago Heights man guilty of the 2023 first-degree murder of a Joliet woman

A Joliet man was arrested after he was accused of attempting to bite the ear of a police officer and traveling 80 mph on Theodore Street in a Volkswagen Atlas containing a machete, according to police and court records

The Joliet Police Department said Friday that it has arrested Angel Magana, 20, and Latrell Woodall, 20, both of Joliet in connection with the shooting death of a teenager in 2022.

A woman and man in Joliet are expected to survive a shooting that left them wounded in on East Benton Street, police said. 

A 16-year-old teen in Joliet was caught carrying two loaded handguns, one of which had a high-capacity magazine, inside of a backpack after fleeing from officers, police said.

A Joliet man has been charged with robbing a local gas station while armed with a knife. He fled the scene on a bicycle.

Officers responded to four unrelated shootings in Joliet that caused no injuries but did cause property damage. 

The Tri-County Auto Theft Task Force recovered about $750,000 worth of stolen property at a business in Gurnee following a multi-agency investigation that began in Joliet.

A Crest Hill man was sentenced to serve 50% of a four-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to the 2024 reckless homicide of a Joliet couple but he could spend less than 10 months in prison. 

A Joliet woman has been ordered to pay back $20,000 after she pleaded guilty to defrauding a federal COVID-19 pandemic relief program in 2021. 

Joliet police officers are now able to do real-time translation in more than 50 languages thanks to a new technology the department implemented this week

Twin brothers from Romeoville have been granted pretrial release in a Joliet robbery case after a judge found no probable cause for charges in one of the brothers’ cases, court records show. 

A Joliet woman was arrested after she allegedly yelled at Home Cut Donuts staff, brandished a box cutter and threatened them, which caused them to lock themselves in a backroom for safety, police said.

A victim of a robbery in Joliet reported several people struck him with handguns and stole his bag containing $300 and a vial of ashes from a “deceased loved one,” according to prosecutors.

A Joliet man remains missing since June 27 but police officers have located a vehicle they believe he was driving before he vanished.

A Joliet man is charged with driving drunk in a crash that critically injured a motorcycle operator and he was ordered to remain in jail after prosecutors said he told police he wanted to go back to Mexico. 

An officer responding to a disturbance at Riverwalk Homes in Joliet was almost struck by a pair of scissors and while other officers recovered a handgun in a separate incident, police said. 

A Joliet man was granted pretrial release in a case where he’s charged with unlawful possession of a gun that an 8-year-old child allegedly used in a May 15 shooting that wounded a 5-year-old child.

A 14-year-old Labrador retriever named Bear was euthanized after a Joliet woman allegedly caused the dog to suffer a heat stroke, police said.

There will be parking lot closures and traffic alterations around Billie Limacher Bicentennial Park and Theatre for the city of Joliet’s fireworks Thursday evening

A Country Club Hills man was arrested in Joliet after he was accused of possessing a ghost gun with an extended magazine that was loaded with 32 rounds, prosecutors said.

The Joliet owner of a firearm that was used in the shooting of a 5-year-old child has charged with unlawful possession of a weapon by felon. The child is "doing well" after several surgeries, a police official said.

A woman was arrested after she was accused of failing to call 911 following an incident where an 8-year-old child allegedly shot a 5-year-old child, police said.

A Will County judge allowed for the pretrial release of a man charged with unlawful possession of a weapon by felon in the investigation of a June 12 shooting at a Joliet apartment complex.