JOLIET — One of the Joliet Police Department’s most noteworthy arrests during September came as part of the Operation Streetsweeper. D’Amonta Barber, a long-time Joliet street criminal from Lockner Boulevard, was captured in connection with a house on North Center Street being shot up in July, a total of 46 shell casings were recovered.
While Barber, now 25, remains in the Will County Jail, his dwelling since Sept. 3, Joliet police and the Will County State’s Attorney’s Office filed four additional charges against Barber on Tuesday, hoping that he remains locked away from society and the Joliet community for a very, very long time.
According to Tuesday’s newest criminal complaint, Barber is being charged with two Class X felonies of unlawful manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance, one felony count of unlawful manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance and one felony count of unlawful possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.
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Prosecutors said the following events led to Barber’s capture by Joliet police on Sept. 3:
That night, one of the three Killian brothers on the Joliet police force was conducting surveillance on Barber in the 900 block of Mazalin Drive. Barber was wanted in connection with a charge of aggravated discharge of a gun for the July house shooting.
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On Sept. 3, Barber left the house on Mazalin, entered a Mazda and drove off. Joliet police later found Barber on Schmidt Road, where Barber was arrested.
At the time, court records show, Joliet police made the following discovery:
Prosecutors noted that Barber’s pills were packaged in knotted, clear plastic baggies “which, in combination with the denominations of United States currency defendant was carrying, is consistent with the sale and distribution of narcotics.”
In 2020, Barber was sentenced to four years at the Illinois Department of Corrections for a 2018 crime of aggravated discharge of a gun. Barber was also placed on conditional discharge for an aggravated unlawful use of a weapon in a vehicle crime from 2019.
Barber was also out of custody on pretrial release for a charge of possession of a stolen motor vehicle and the crime of aggravated fleeing and eluding the police. The crime happened on New Year’s Eve 2022, and his 2023 charges are still pending in Will County.
“It’s the people’s position that these offenses are highly dangerous in nature because they allege that the defendant was in possession of large amounts of controlled substances, which are deadly to the human body, with the intent to distribute them to others,” Will County’s prosecutors declared in Tuesday’s filing.
Recent Joliet Patch coverage:
Instagram Live Video Previews 46 Gunshots At Joliet House: McKenna
21 Mugshots Released By Joliet Police In Operation Streetsweeper
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