Prosecutors said a Joliet man charged with shooting at a residence occupied by two women and a child has been given too many chances to follow his pretrial release conditions.

On Friday, Angel Vargas, 25, was back in the Will County jail following the investigation of a shooting on March 6 that damaged a residence in the 600 block of Dover Street in Joliet.

Vargas is charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm, aggravated assault and violation of pretrial release conditions.

Vargas has about five open felony cases dating back to 2022.

One of those cases involves a charge of attempted murder over a 2022 shooting in Joliet Township.

Vargas been “given so many attempts” to follow the conditions of bond and of the most restrictive form of pretrial release and home confinement with an ankle monitor, according to a court petition from Assistant State’s Attorney Tricia McKenna.

“Despite this, the defendant continues to commit new, violent offenses and to terrorize the community. There is clearly nothing less restrictive than incarceration which could adequately protect the community from Angel Vargas,” McKenna’s petition said.

Vargas’ detention hearing is set for April 10.

Vargas was last in jail on Jan. 30, 2025.

On that day, Will County Judge Art Smigielski denied a petition from prosecutors to revoke Vargas’ pretrial release after more charges were filed against him in 2024, court records show.

“[Vargas] has been given [seven] prior opportunities to be released on pretrial conditions and continues to violate the terms of that release,” according to a Jan. 27, 2025 court filing from Assistant State’s Attorney Christine Vukmir.

In the March 6 shooting, two women were eating dinner with a young child when their Dover Street residence was struck by gunfire, McKenna said.

The women and child fled to the basement for safety, she said.

Vargas was identified by detectives as a suspect in the shooting, English said.

Officers recovered a loaded 9 mm handgun and a loaded .40-caliber handgun at Vargas’ residence, English said.

The .40-caliber handgun was equipped with a switch device that allows the firearm to fire automatically, he said.

Vargas was detained during a nearby traffic stop and taken to the Joliet Police Department for questioning, English said.

Vargas told police he wasn’t at the shooting and the GPS locations on his ankle bracelet that placed him at the scene of the shooting were wrong, McKenna said.

Before the elimination of cash bail under the SAFE-T, Vargas was able to secure his release from jail on cash bonds that were reduced by Will County Judge Carmen Goodman at the request of Vargas’ attorney, Chuck Bretz.

Vargas was initially jailed in the attempted murder case on a $1 million bond, which Goodman reduced to $50,000.