Bodycam released by Joliet police arresting a missing woman in possession of a stolen vehicle
By: Brittany Drabek, a 25-year-old woman from Crystal Lake, received a stern lecture from a Joliet police officer after her February arrest at a Joliet house in the 1300 block of Kinsey Avenue because she put up a fight with the two officers who tried to arrest her in connection with a stolen car Drabek had in her Joliet garage.
Joliet Patch has obtained the body camera video from the Joliet police officers through Freedom of Information Act request. Drabek was subsequently given her notice to appear on charges of possession of a stolen vehicle and aggravated resisting a peace officer.
"If you would have did that in the beginning instead of acting all scary and cracking the door, I promise you, none of this would have happened," one of the arresting officers told her back inside his Joliet police squad car. "It would have never went this far. Your fault for doing that. Not ours. You acted like we walked up as we were robbers or something like that. We have on full police uniform. Ma'am, what were you thinking?
"You're like 25 or 26 years old. Why would we come in and rob your house? We're in full uniform. Okay, these are the results of your actions, not ours."
In the garage, she was hiding a stolen car that she had taken from a relative, according to arrest reports.