Crime & Safety
From Prison to Jail: Man Charged With Trying to Put Hit on Mom in New Home
A man charged with trying to put a hit on his mother was released from prison into the custody of the Will County Sheriff's Department.
Scott Rokita did his time for setting fire to the garage of his mother's Bolingbrook house. But instead of walking out of prison a free man, he was taken into custody by a Will County deputy and hauled off to jail for allegedly trying to put a hit on his mom.
Rokita, 42, arrived at the Will County jail shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday. He was released from Downstate Vandalia Correctional Center earlier in the day.
Rokita had just finished up a three-year prison sentence for setting fire to his mother's garage in May 2012.
His mother, Barbara Rokita secured a protective order against him in May in anticipation of her son returning to do her harm.
"I am afraid of Scott because of what he has done in the past," Barbara Rokita said in her petition for the protective order. "He will be getting out of prison soon. Scott has destroyed my property. He has put sugar in my gas tank, slashed my tires, he (has) cut all the wires in the house, electric etc. I am afraid for my self and my family because I know what Scott is capable of."
Police and prosecutors apparently believed Barbara Rokita's fears were very real, as they charged her son on Tuesday with trying to hire a hitman to do her in.
Scott Rokita met the man he allegedly tried to hire while they were both locked up in the Will County jail. Rokita was in on arson and criiminal damage to property charges. The other man had a pending drug case.
The complaint says Scott Rokita made the murder-for-hire offer between March 1 and Aug. 31, 2012.
The man Rokita allegedly approached about killing his mother is out of jail but still has felony drug cases pending.
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