Screaming incident at Dollar General leads to arrest for assault: JPD

JOLIET – A 54-year-old Joliet resident named Mark Surges was led away in handcuffs by police officers who were called to the Dollar General store at 2410 Essington Road. Surges was charged with assault for the incident.

Joliet police let him go home after he received a summons to appear in court under the SAFE-T Act.

According to Dwayne English, spokesman for the Joliet Police Department:

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On June 3 at 11:50 a.m., officers responded to a disturbance at the Dollar General on Essington Road.

Officers found that Surges approached another man, a Dollar General customer, in the store’s parking lot and began yelling at him about drugs.

It is believed that Surges then approached the victim aggressively, as if he wanted to fight him. The victim then sprayed Surges with pepper spray. Surges was on the scene and taken into custody without incident.