Traveling To Meet A Minor Defendant Gets Bail Cut In Half

Joliet IL

25 October, 2021

6:00 PM

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JOLIET, IL — A computer software employee from Lake Zurich who was arrested by Joliet police on charges of traveling to meet a minor is no longer in the Will County Jail after a judge cut his bail in half. Will County Judge David Carlson agreed to reduce Joshua Radetski's bail from $500,000 to $250,000 at the request of Radetski's private counsel, long-time Joliet attorney Steven Haney. After spending 14 days in jail, Radetski was set free by the Will County corrections guards last Thursday night, jail logs show. The criminal defendant's father, who lives in Palatine, posted the necessary $25,000 cash to allow his 46-year-old son to regain his freedom while awaiting trial in Will County, court files show. Will County prosecutors have charged Radetski with traveling to meet a minor, grooming and indecent solicitation of a child through the Internet. According to the conditions of bail, Carlson informed Radetski that he will be placed on home confinement as part of the pre-trial release program. The Lake Zurich man is not to leave his home except to go to court, a medical facility, church or to meet with his lawyer. According to his criminal complaint, Radetski used a cellular phone with the intent of meeting a person he believed to be a child under the age of 17: Shane Divis of the Save Our Siblings organization, who was using a 16-year-old female persona, "to meet at a location ... (in) Joliet without the knowledge of the child's parent or guardian and the meeting with the child was arranged for other than a lawful purpose in Illinois." The criminal complaint indicates Radetski expected the 16-year-old female "to perform an act of sexual penetration." On Oct. 7, Joliet police arrested Radetski at a business parking lot in the 3100 block of Joliet's West Jefferson Street.