A firefighter-paramedic who worked for several fire departments in McHenry County has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to harassing a woman while violating an order of protection.
Court records show a 38-year-old Woodstock woman sought an emergency order of protection against Aaron A. Krejci, 42, of Woodstock, in late October.
The woman said in her petition that she was in a relationship with Krejci for several years and it was “abusive mentally, physically, emotionally.”
She said in October that Krejci had not obtained help for his violence and anger and that he was “getting worse in the aspect of harassment, stalking and threatening.”
The petition said Krejci was calling the woman 20-70 times a day and sending text messages and emails making threatening statements.
She also said that he was driving by her house multiple times a day at all hours and that he had followed her to a friend’s house one night.
The woman said that Krejci calls her work and asks if she is working. “I do not feel physically safe in my own home, my personal items/belongings are not safe.”
A McHenry County judge granted the emergency temporary order of protection and another judge later granted a plenary order of protection in December.
Krejci was charged on February 28 with cyberstalking causing distress, violating an order of protection and electronic harassment and an arrest warrant was issued for him.
A criminal complaint filed in McHenry County Circuit Court alleges Krejci violated the active order of protection from December 11 to February 7 by sending over 100 emails to the woman that were harassing in nature and caused emotional distress.
The complaint said that from April 1, 2024, to February 7, 2025, Krejci sent numerous emails to the woman asking about specific locations she had visited, including one email referencing a vacation she had taken where Krejci had driven to the woman’s mother’s house in Michigan in an attempt to locate her.
In addition, hundreds of emails were sent that involved threats and insults to the woman and her family, including repeated comments referencing her dead father and his ashes, the complaint said.
The complaint said Krejci also sent the woman partially censored naked images of unknown women.
He threatened to call the victim while he was having sex with other women so she could hear them having sex, the complaint said.
Court records show that Krejci was already on pre-trial release, having been released from custody on December 19, for violating an order of protection with the children of the same woman at the time of the new offense.
Following Krejci’s latest arrest, the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office filed a petition to detain him in the new case and a petition to revoke his pre-trial release in the prior case.
McHenry County Judge Cynthia Lamb granted the petitions and remanded Krejci to the McHenry County Jail.
The judge noted Krejci was in direct violation of the order of protection and was already on pre-trial release for the same offense.
“During the course of these emails, the victim routinely asked the Defendant to stop contacting her. The Court believes it cannot put any orders in place to prevent further abusive contact or mitigate the real and present threat to the safety of any person or persons in the community,” Lamb said.
Krejci has worked as a firefighter-paramedic for numerous fire departments throughout McHenry County as well as a department in Cook County in the past several years.
Fire officials throughout the county told Lake and McHenry County Scanner that Krejci is no longer employed at their departments.
Court records show Krejci entered into a negotiated plea deal with the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office this week.
He pleaded guilty to one count of violation of an order of protection, a Class A misdemeanor, and one count of electronic harassment, a Class B misdemeanor, in exchange for his other charges being dismissed.
McHenry County Judge Mark Gerhardt accepted the plea and sentenced Krejci to two years of probation pursuant to the agreement.
Krejci was ordered to have no contact with the victim or the children involved and he was also ordered not to consume alcohol.
Krejci will be required to obtain a mental health evaluation within 45 days and pay $1,414 in court fines and fees.