Bedrocks Over-Served Two Joliet Men Who Later Rammed Mercedes Benz: Lawsuit

SHOREWOOD, IL - John Bailey and Alberto Delatorre should expect to get the cold shoulder treatment and a lot of angry glares if they ever try to visit Bedrocks in the near future. The two Plainfield men, both in their twenties, recently filed a civil lawsuit at the Will County Courthouse against Bedrocks Craft Beer And Pizza Bar. They also named as defendants the bar's owner, Kenneth Groh, along with Kevin Troesch and Jacob Ward, two young men from Joliet who visited the bar back on July 9, 2016.

The lawsuit, filed by attorney Susan Fransen of Briskman, Briskman & Greenberg, seeks in excess of $50,000 in monetary damages against the defendants. Joliet Patch called Bedrocks on Friday seeking comment from the bar's owner, but Groh did not call back.

"It's very unusual and not a run-of-the-mill case at all," Fransen told Patch. "One of the defendants had approached John (Bailey) and he was expecting John to buy him a drink. John apparently did not even know him, but he was basically harassing my client to get him a drink. My client left and went to get cigarettes."

John Bailey

Fransen maintains that both of her clients are the true victims here. However, that will be determined by Will County's courts at a later date. Last year's story in the Joliet Patch reported that Bailey, Troesch and Ward, were all arrested after the late-night summer fracas began at Bedrocks but ultimately ended up with arrows being shot, vehicles being rammed, and Joliet police intervention needed to defuse the volatile situation.

According to the recent lawsuit, Troesch is accused of using Ward's 2002 Saturn to "intentionally collide with and against John's 2007 Mercedes Benz." On the other hand, the plaintiff's lawsuit states, Bailey and Delatorre "were in the exercise of ordinary care and caution for their own safety and property."

Kevin Troesch

"It just escalated ... John suffered a broken arm and Alberto suffered serious back injuries," Fransen told Patch.

As for Bedrocks, the bar in Shorewood is accused in the civil suit of over-serving Ward and Troesch.

The bar's employees "sold or gave alcoholic beverages to Ward and Troesch, which then and there Ward and Troesch consumed. These alcoholic beverages caused the intoxication of Ward and Troesch and while intoxicated and as a result of this intoxication, caused the serious car accidents while traveling eastbound on (U.S. 52) in the village of Shorewood and City of Joliet ... in which John was driving and Alberto was a passenger, injuring him."

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Mugshots of Bailey and Troesch via Will County Sheriff's Department.