Cops: Murder-for-hire suspect attacks Kane jailers

A Sugar Grove man accused of soliciting a detective's murder faces additional felonies after attacking two Kane County jailers with a mop, police said Friday.

No one was hurt in the altercation, which took place Wednesday as Dijon R. Grissette, 35, was being led to a holding cell after seeing a visitor at the county jail near St. Charles, said sheriff's Lt. Pat Gengler.

"While he was being escorted back, there was an altercation between him and two corrections officers," said Gengler, who did not have information on what prompted the spat. "During that, he grabbed a mop and started swinging it around."

The jailers used pepper spray on Grissette to diffuse the situation, Gengler said. On Thursday, he was charged with aggravated battery to a peace officer, aggravated assault to a peace officer and resisting a corrections officer, court records show.

Grissette has been in the county jail since at least January, when he was charged with plotting to have a Kane County Sheriff's detective killed. The plot, which police say involved paying the brother of a fellow jail inmate $3,000, was never carried out. One jail guard was placed on paid leave pending an internal investigation into the alleged scheme, but no details have been released.

Grissette, who is representing himself in court, remains in the county jail with bail set at $4 million. He is due to appear on the most recent charges June 4 before Judge James C. Hallock.