Hayley Wilton of Roxana, IL harasses local ice cream stand because loved one of owner is a Person Forced to Register

This gun-sucking Karen Convoy supporter has nothing better to do than engage in a harassment campaign, but this one may backfire. 

https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Dozens-gather-in-protest-of-new-Cone-Barn-17069793.php

Roxana rally targets Cone Barn

Billy Woods, April 10, 2022

ROXANA — Since 2006, Tanea Berry and her husband, Josh, have been neighbors to the Cone Barn at 323 N. Central Ave. in Roxana.

They have memories of both of their children walking next door and grabbing ice cream.

But recently the Berrys, along with other community members, don’t have that same sense of comfort in letting their children near the ice cream shop.

The Cone Barn was recently bought by Terry Hogan whose husband ...  is on the Illinois State Police Sex Offender Registry.

“I don’t want to live next door to this,” Tanea Berry said.

That’s why on Saturday she and dozens of others held a rally in protest of the new ownership at the Cone Barn.

The Berrys have two kids, 13 and 23; the oldest has two kids of their own and always has them by the Berry's home, which makes Tanea Berry uncomfortable.

“I loved having the Cone Barn here because my kids could walk next door and get ice cream,” Tanea Berry said. "But now they can’t.”

Saturday's rally also focused on a former Cone Barn employee ... who no longer works there. Hobbs is on the state’s violent offender database....

Rally organizer Hayley Wilton is concerned about the Cone Barn's location: 505 feet from the high school and across the street from the Burbank Park, the Roxana Church of the Nazarene (which offers a Sunday school service for kids) and the Nazarene Community Theater owned by the church which offers free movies for families and kids.

“This is the center of town,” Wilton said. “This is a community that’s always surrounded with kids. As the seasons change, there are lots of kids and sports teams hanging out in this area.”

Wilton said she learned about Heltsley and Hobbs when she saw a post advertising jobs at the Cone Barn and she researched the names she recognized.

“Offenders reoffend,” Wilton said. “It’s bound to happen again.”

Wilton has four kids: 18, 16, 13 and 11. She said she grew up on Elm Street in Roxana and was a childhood victim herself. She said moved back to Roxana a few years ago specifically for the school that is just blocks from the Cone Barn.

Wilton wants to make people aware of the business. She and Tanea Berry also want it sold to new owners.

Tanea Berry also wants Roxana officials to pass an ordinance prohibiting a sex offender list member to own something so close to schools and parks, especially if that business caters to children. Heltsley does not own the Cone Barn; Hogan does.

“I loved the community feeling we had here,” Tanea Berry said. “But this isn’t what I want.”

A petition seeking to have someone else buy the Cone Barn is on the Cone Barn Awareness Facebook group page.