JOLIET, IL — The Will County State’s Attorney’s Office of Jim Glasgow has filed a total of four criminal charges against 70-year-old Cunningham Neighborhood resident Panagiotis Sakitjakis. Joliet police arrested him last Thursday in connection with allegations of unlawful violation of a stalking no-contact order and unlawful violation of an order of protection.
Sakitjakis, who resides in the 900 block of Cora Street, has been involved in a long-standing dispute with his next-door neighbors, a 51-year-old woman and her 47-year-old husband, and both of them have taken out multiple protective orders against him in recent years.
One criminal complaint was filed on Saturday and the other was filed last Thursday. After two days in the Will County Jail, the 70-year-old Cora Street homeowner regained his freedom from Will County Judge John Connor on Saturday.
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Judge Connor signed a pretrial release order informing Sakitjakis that he must have no contact with the man and woman next door. “No video recording except as to defendant’s own property and or canine defecation issues,” Judge Connor wrote in the pretrial release order.
According to an order of protection taken out last June against Sakitjakis, “Panagiotis began constructing a makeshift fence, but he uses the portion of the fence that is not damaged to prop the materials he used to build the fence. I called the police, and they said he was violating city ordinances and he did not have a permit to remove the plywood.”
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“Despite the warning by Joliet police, defendant Sakitjakis continues to frequent my place of employment. I have been working at (a grocery store) for almost two months now and the defendant comes to the store at least once every day, sometimes two times and makes a point to let me see him making face gestures to intimidate me,” the order of protection reads.
“He knows what times I work by us being neighbors because he watches me … I don’t feel safe with him constantly. He consistently harasses me and my husband … I have also been assaulted by the defendant, and he was charged with battery. I have and continue to do everything needed so I can feel safe and protected in my home and community, but this person continues to do whatever he wants without any repercussions for his actions.”
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