Joliet Sexual Assault Defendant From Bridge Street Meets SAFE-T-Act's Dangerousness Standard: Judge

JOLIET, IL — A 27-year-old Joliet defendant arrested in recent days by the Joliet Police Department on two charges of criminal sexual assault will not be regaining his freedom. Will County Judge Donald DeWilkins ruled that Richard Alvarez-Camacho meets the dangerousness standard of the Illinois SAFE-T-Act. As a result, he will stay in the Will County Jail indefinitely as his criminal case moves through the pretrial process.

The criminal complaint states that on May 28, Alvarez placed his penis inside his female victim by the use of force or threat of force.

According to the prosecution's petition to deny pretrial release, around 2 a.m. on May 28, the victim was sleeping at Alvarez's house in the 400 block of Bridge Street and he got into the bed and touched her breast and vagina from outside the pants and she told him to stop. He initially stopped, the court files show. However, he then pulled down his pants and removed her underwear as she told him to stop again, the prosecutors noted. The victim told Alvarez to stop his behavior and she pushed him as he held her arm back during the sexual assault, the prosecutors indicated. The sexual assault lasted for several minutes, the court records show.

"Victim reports being in shock and not being able to move," the prosecutors pointed out.

As for Alvarez, he was interviewed by a Spanish-speaking Joliet police detective who read him his Miranda Rights "after which he admitted to penetrating (the woman's) vagina with his penis three times and that she told him no multiple times and that he did use a condom then took it off," the petition to deny pretrial release explained.

Alvarez will now remain in his Will County jail cell. His next trip back to the Will County Courthouse, for pretrial, is set for June 11 in Courtroom 405.