JOLIET — Less than three weeks after Joliet police deployed a Taser upon 30-year-old Antonio Geiler at the Daybreak Shelter at 611 East Cass Street, the ex-Illinois Department of Corrections prison inmate now on parole finds himself in the Will County Jail after Joliet police say he followed a random woman to her west side home early Friday morning, arrest reports show.
Geiler’s previous crimes happened nowhere near Joliet. His 2016, 2017 and 2021 convictions that landed him in prison at the Dixon Correctional Center were in Tazewell and Woodford Counties.
Friday’s early morning crime in Joliet resulted in charges of attempting to disarm a police officer, resisting arrest, obstructing justice and disorderly conduct.
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Joliet police spokesman Dwayne English provided the following summary of events, leading to Geiler’s detention at the Will County Jail:
At 12:46 a.m., the officers responded to the 1000 block of Frederick Street for a suspicious male. The officers learned that Geiler had followed a woman to her home. It is believed that Geiler followed the woman to her front door without saying anything to her. The victim was able to get inside the home and she called 911.
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“Geiler was unknown to the female,” English stressed.
While the officers spoke to Geiler near the house, he made erratic statements that wanted an officer to shoot him; then he grabbed for an officer’s holstered gun without success, and a struggled ensued.
Officers eventually placed him into custody. Then, at the Joliet Police Department, he refused to cooperate with booking procedures.
He was then transferred to the Will County Jail, and there was no booking mugshot available as of Friday afternoon. Geiler comes from Creve Coeur, Missouri.
On Oct. 28, Geiler was the focus of a Joliet Patch crime story headlined, “Episode At Daybreak Shelter Leads To Man’s Tasering, Arrest.”
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According to the Illinois Department of Corrections website, Geiler is now on parole for a 2021 domestic battery conviction out of Woodford County that drew a three-year prison term, a 20217 stolen vehicle conviction out of Tazewell County and a 2016 aggravated robbery with a gun that drew a six year prison term out of Tazewell County, the county seat for Pekin.
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