Press Release: 2011
Will County Drug Court brings new prosecutor, State’s Attorney Glasgow full circle
in 2011ASA Elizabeth Johnson JOLIET – Eleven years ago, 18-year-old Elizabeth Johnson’s lifelong dream of becoming an attorney nearly went up in smoke. She had fallen in with a bad crowd and was hanging around a drug house that had been targeted by police. She was abusing marijuana and on the verge of graduating to harder […]
Joliet man who committed brutal rape gets maximum 90 years
in 2011June 29 JOLIET – Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow announces that a Joliet man who forced his way into a woman’s home and brutally raped her was sentenced to a maximum sentence of 90 years in prison today. A jury in April found Russell Amos Jr., 46, of 607 Whitley, Joliet, guilty of one […]
Man who stabbed former landlord gets 55 years in prison
in 2011June 22 JOLIET – Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow announced today that a judge sentenced the man who stabbed his former landlord to death in 2007 to 55 years in prison. Martin Gomez, 26, was convicted in April of stabbing Joseph Salamie to death in unincorporated Peotone on May 9, 2007. He also was […]