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Cook County dropped charges after Chicago cops saw him stealing a catalytic converter. He wasn’t so lucky in DuPage County.
CWBChicago ^ | 2/20/24 | staff

Posted on 02/21/2024 3:06:53 AM PST by CFW

CHICAGO — Dexter Williams has been on a roll in Cook County. Since 2022, he’s been charged with misdemeanors six times, and prosecutors dropped all but one of those cases.

Among the charges they dropped was a 2022 theft case that police filed against him after on-duty Chicago police officers said they saw Williams trying to steal a catalytic converter in Roscoe Village. The cops asked prosecutors to approve felony charges, but the state’s attorney’s office rejected that idea and then dropped the entire matter a few months later.

Maybe Williams should have stayed in Cook County.

He’s now being detained in DuPage County after officials there accused him of having—this may sound familiar—four catalytic converters, a jack, a Sawzall, and Sawzall blades in his car after he slammed into a light pole while trying to get away from cops in Lombard.

DuPage County State’s Attorney Bob Berlin couldn’t be more pleased.

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Unlike Cook County’s prosecutors, Berlin’s team slapped Williams with felony charges of possessing a stolen motor vehicle, possession of burglary tools, and aggravated fleeing and eluding. They tacked on a dozen misdemeanors and traffic offenses, too.

Berlin’s prosecutors asked a DuPage County judge to detain Williams as a public safety threat. The judge granted that request, Berlin said.

Williams looks perplexed in his DuPage County mugshot. Maybe he feels confused by how law enforcement outside Cook County handles criminal matters.

(Excerpt) Read more at cwbchicago.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: blackcrime; chicago; crime; firearms; illinois; sorosdas
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Repeat criminals are truly baffled when the commit a crime and are caught in a non-Soros DA county. In DuPage county, Williams may find himself going to prison for a few years.

It reminds me of the video clip of a few weeks ago where a criminal found out he had unknowingly ventured into Polk County, Florida when running from cops and committed several traffic infractions. As he was arrested by deputies he told them he would be released in a short while but then they told him he was in Polk County, and his response was ‘Oh, my God! Not Grady Judd!'

https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-suspect-brags-bail-informed-tough-crime-sheriff

1 posted on 02/21/2024 3:06:54 AM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

No mother in America needs be feared her son is arrested for crossing over from one to another county.


2 posted on 02/21/2024 3:09:27 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: CFW

He is part of the reason your insurance has gone thru the roof.


3 posted on 02/21/2024 3:14:32 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Redmen4ever

My catalytic converter was stolen out of my car after insurance out of pocket was 500 dollars, no arrests to date and even if so how do you recoup? you dont! and the suspect is free to do it again to someone else. Nice system we have


4 posted on 02/21/2024 3:16:38 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: CFW

5 posted on 02/21/2024 3:24:37 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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[Williams looks perplexed in his DuPage County mugshot.]

Of course he looks perplexed. Vandalism and Stealing from others is a “right” after all.

C’mon man!!


6 posted on 02/21/2024 3:27:06 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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My cup beer mug of schadenfreude runneth over!
7 posted on 02/21/2024 3:38:40 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: SaveFerris

Dat’s racisss!

Cue gif...


8 posted on 02/21/2024 3:52:24 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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Cook County: Dexter Williams charged with misdemeanors six times, including
trying to steal a catalytic converter; prosecutors dropped all but one of those cases.

DuPage County: Dexter Williams slapped with felony charges; possessing a stolen motor vehicle, possession of burglary tools, aggravated fleeing and eluding plus a dozen misdemeanors and traffic offenses, and detained Williams as a public safety threat.


9 posted on 02/21/2024 3:54:59 AM PST by Liz (Political correctness is tyranny with manners. Charlton Heston.)
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To: HombreSecreto

He’s a victim of Global Warming!


10 posted on 02/21/2024 3:55:31 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Just 4% of the population commit 60% of the crimes. There is your clue. /spit


11 posted on 02/21/2024 4:03:17 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Oh man, now you’re gonna make Eric Holder mad...


12 posted on 02/21/2024 4:05:54 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Redmen4ever

Maybe he got his Mom a used catalytic converter for Mother’s Day


13 posted on 02/21/2024 4:09:30 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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He'd look even more "perplexed" without hands or the ability to steal again....that's why they used to execute horse theives.

14 posted on 02/21/2024 6:02:58 AM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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Sounds like they don’t have a “no chase” policy in DuPage county either.

DuPage county seems to have avoided a lot of the progressive rot that has afflicted counties on the Virginia side of the Potomac in recent years.


15 posted on 02/21/2024 6:04:42 AM PST by brianl703
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He should be executed for being a predator on society.


16 posted on 02/21/2024 6:06:55 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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Is this a small town?


17 posted on 02/21/2024 6:56:29 AM PST by CoastWatcher
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To: CFW

They pulled one out by his feet recently in the metro that is fortunately not exactly nearby. He was a three-striker fafo-ing in a red state. Buh bye!


18 posted on 02/21/2024 9:45:37 AM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: CFW

“They just tryin’ to feed his kids.” -AOC


19 posted on 02/21/2024 11:27:18 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: KC_Conspirator

My county is not very strong. We have no diversity. And no catalytic converter thefts....


20 posted on 02/21/2024 11:28:10 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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