Man in custody after barricading himself inside Plainfield Township home

Police shut down a stretch of Drauden Road running from Joliet to Plainfield and advised area residents to stay in place for almost two hours Friday morning as they confronted a man who barricaded himself inside a house during a domestic incident.

A woman who fled the house and called police was taken to a hospital with what were called not life-threatening injuries.

Police said the man was alone in the house when taken into custody.

“The scene has been cleared by SWAT, the roads are open, and the male individual is in sheriff’s custody,” Kathy Hoffmeyer, public information officer for the Will County Sheriff’s Office, said once the incident was settled. “No one else was inside the home.”

The woman was “conscious and speaking with detectives,” according to the sheriff’s office, which did not provide details on her injuries.

The man had barricaded himself in a home in the 25000 block of Dina Court in Plainfield Township after the woman inside the home called 911 and ran outside, according to a news release from the Will County Sheriff’s Office.

The house in the Fond Du Lac subdivision is in a cul de sac of five houses where neighbors said they know each other pretty well, with the exception of the house where trouble erupted Friday.

Fond Du Lac is an unincorporated subdivision with small lakes running between the residential properties. It lies between the borders of Joliet and Plainfield.

“It’s very quiet,” said Darrell Lindsey, who lives along Drauden up the road from the cul de sac and looked outside his window Friday to find the area filled with police vehicles.

Those who live in the cul de sac, however, said the house where the incident occurred appeared to be an exception to the neighborhood.

One neighbor said it was hard to tell how many people lived there because so many would come and go, although others said it appeared to be occupied by one man and a woman.

“It’s just not like any of the other houses here,” Stacy Stover said. “There’s a lot of drama there.”

Stover said she heard yelling from the house Saturday night.

Another neighbor who did not want to provide his name said he heard shouting from the house this week and again Friday morning.

“All of a sudden, I heard shouting,” the neighbor said. “But I heard that yesterday and the day before.”

The outburst Friday proved to be the breaking point.

At 9:41 a.m., 911 dispatch received a call from a woman who said she was inside the house when an incident took place and had run outside, according to the sheriff’s office.

Will County sheriff’s deputies, Plainfield and Joliet police officers and SWAT officials were at the scene, and a perimeter was set up in the surrounding area.

Residents in the area were asked to shelter in place as police dealt with the incident, said Joliet Police Sgt. Dwayne English, the police department’s spokesman.

A reverse 911 call notified the residents, and police also were going door to door to advise residents to shelter in place.

The shelter-in-place advisory covered a quarter-mile area from the house. Schools within the perimeter area were notified and also were taking appropriate measures, according to the sheriff’s office.

Road closures were put in place at northbound and southbound Drauden Road, a major arterial route for the area, and stretched to Caton Farm Road in Joliet. The public was encouraged by police to avoid the area and seek alternate routes.