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

[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.

[KC_Conspirator]

Lolz, I used to live in your county eons ago.