'Unruly' inmate struck 3 guards at Will County jail: records

A Will County jail inmate has been charged with physically striking with three guards, court records show.

Jaylan Banks, 21, of Wheaton has been charged with three counts of aggravated battery in connection with the incident on Sept. 4, court records show. A criminal complaint said Banks struck three guards.

Banks has been in jail since Aug. 24 after he and Sherwan Williams, 23, were arrested in Bolingbrook on an armed robbery charge.

On Sept. 5, a judge increased Banks’ $500,000 bond by $1 million. Banks will need to post $150,000 for his release from jail.

The judge also found Banks to be “unruly, unsavory and disrespectful during court proceedings,” court records show.

Previously, a judge held Banks in contempt of court on Aug. 25 “for being disruptive to the court.” Banks was sentenced to 15 days in jail.

On Aug. 24, Williams broke into a woman’s car in Bolingbrook by shooting out a window, grabbed several of her belongings and fled the scene in a car that was occupied by Banks, police said.

Officers initiated a traffic stop on the car. Banks refused officers' commands to exit the car, police said. When Banks left the car, he further refused to comply with officers’ commands and yelled, “Shoot me,” police said.

Banks fought with the officers and they had to deploy a Taser on him twice before he was detained, police said.

Banks is the latest inmate this year to face criminal charges over incidents at the jail.

On Aug. 23, Paul Emerick, 66, spat on a guard when he was handed his food tray, police said. On the same day, Alexis Cadenas, 29, destroyed a clock at the jail and wiped the walls with a towel stained with feces, police said.

On Aug. 14, Dieontae Sparks, 20, Nikolaus Vaughn, 20, Malik Elam, 21, Malik Garfield, 20, and Darion McMillian, 19, were charged with collectively attacking Kendall Guyton, 25, and damaging mops and buckets at the jail.

Damonte Burnett, 25, who is free on bond, was charged with attempting to hit two guards with a chair on May 31.

On May 2, convicted sexual predator Quinton Jenkins, 38, struck and pushed a guard because he was upset about some of the rules inmates have to follow at the jail, police said.

Sparks threw a plastic bag of feces at a guard on March 30 after he refused to go back to his cell during lockdown, police said.

Jacob Bogdan, 21, coughed on a guard's face on March 23 to make the guard think he had COVID-19, police said. He pleaded guilty to aggravated assault over the incident and he was released from jail on June 22.