Crest Hill Man Scuffles With Joliet Police Trying To Arrest Him Along With Plainfield Woman: Cops

JOLIET, IL —While Joliet police were out looking this week to arrest Amanda Bice, they managed to capture her as well as 37-year-old Tyrone Boykins after someone called the police believing Bice was the victim of a robbery. She was not.

According to the Joliet police spokesman Dwayne English, at 11:20 a.m. on Wednesday, officers responded to the parking lot of a business in the 1800 block of West Jefferson Street for a report of a possible robbery involving a stolen cellphone.

English said that when officers tried to make contact, both Bice and Boykins allegedly refused to cooperate and took off southbound on foot. Officers caught up to Boykins, who allegedly resisted officers by pushing and pulling away as they tried to take him into custody, according to English.

During the struggle, officers also saw Boykins place an unknown item into his mouth. Boykins was ultimately taken into custody without further incident.

English said the officers recovered suspected heroin from Boykins and suspected cocaine and drug paraphernalia from Bice. Boykins was taken by ambulance from the Joliet Fire
Department to St. Joseph Medical Center after officers believed he may have ingested an unknown substance. He was later released from the hospital and brought to the Joliet Police
Department for booking.

English said the officers later learned that the original complainant saw Boykins remove a cellphone
from Bice’s purse and mistakenly believed a robbery had occurred. Further investigation determined that no robbery had taken place, he emphasized.

Boykins was charged with aggravated battery to a peace officer, two counts of aggravated resisting a peace officer, possession of a controlled substance and obstructing a peace officer. Bice is now in the Will County Jail as well.