Update: Wanted subject who resisted arrest at the Holiday Inn Express in Algonquin apprehended after hours-long standoff

ALGONQUIN – The Algonquin Police Department reported that on Oct. 27 at approximately 10:53 a.m., officers responded to a report of suspicious activity at the Holiday Inn Express located at 2595 Bunker Hill Drive in Algonquin.

Further investigation revealed that a hotel guest who was later identified as 37-year-old LaBurron Jackson of Chicago was wanted on a felony arrest warrant.

Officers had attempted to make contact with Jackson; however, he refused to answer the door of his hotel room and indicated that he would resist officers’ attempts to take him into custody.

“At the time, it was unknown as to whether or not the subject was armed. Members of the Algonquin Police Department secured the scene and Jackson was contained to his hotel room. The McHenry County Sheriff’s Department’s SWAT and Hostage Negotiation Team responded and assisted with tactical operations and negotiations,” said a statement from the Algonquin Police Department.

Nearby H.D. Jacobs High School (2601 Bunker Hill Drive) was put on a “shelter-in-place” lockdown upon being alerted by authorities about the ongoing incident.

Both school administrators and local authorities reassured the public that there was no threat to student or staff safety at any given time during the incident.

McHenry County SWAT negotiators and social workers spoke with Jackson for several hours in an attempt to persuade him to surrender himself.

Despite the negotiation efforts, Jackson repeatedly refused to surrender himself leading to McHenry County SWAT members having to deploy chemical irritants into Jackson’s hotel room.

At 8:12 p.m., Jackson was taken into custody for an arrest warrant for “Parole Violation-Sexual Exploitation of a Minor,” according to the Algonquin Police Department.

Medical attention was provided for Jackson due to his exposure to the chemical irritants. Further charges against Jackson are pending, said the Algonquin Police Department.

Jackson was later transported to the McHenry County Adult Correctional Facility in Woodstock where he was released and transferred to another agency on Oct. 28.

Jackson had made news headlines back in 2014 as being one of four individuals from Chicago to be arrested in a nationwide operation targeting child sex traffickers.

An undercover officer for the Aurora Police Special Operations Group (SOG) aided in the 2014 arrest of Jackson and another Chicago man Demarcus Feltus after having answered an advertisement offering “2 sexy females.” The officer made arrangements to meet the girls at a hotel near Robert Morris College in Aurora, according to the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office.

Upon making contact with the two 15-year-old girls that were dropped off at the hotel by Jackson and Feltus, the undercover officer gave a signal to other SOG agents who then approached the two men that were waiting in their car in the hotel parking lot.

The two men were taken into custody and charged with promoting juvenile prostitution within 1,000 feet of a school back in 2014.

In 2016, Jackson and Feltus were each sentenced to serve 10 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to one count of Involuntary Servitude of a Minor, a Class X Felony.

The Algonquin Police Department states that no members of the public or law enforcement were harmed during the Oct. 27 incident.