Boyfriend: 'I Am Afraid For My Dogs'

BOLINGBROOK, IL - Leighanne Mae Gehrke of Bolingbrook has been charged with two counts of domestic battery and one count of criminal damage to property following last week's arrest by the Bolingbrook Police Department. Court documents indicate that tensions had been escalating in recent weeks involving the 31-year-old woman and her live-in boyfriend, who, following her arrest, obtained an emergency order of protection, forbidding her from contacting him or visiting his place in the 100 block of Chestnut Lane.

"Leighanne and I have been arguing for a while," the boyfriend notified the Will County Courthouse. "She was getting heated and started yelling at me, insulting me, telling me she wishes I was dead ... She had thrown my (belongings) that I had started packing out on the front lawn. She started hitting me with a baby gate."

The victim told the court how he eventually managed to get away from the tense situation and drive over to his brother's place. Police were called and Gehrke went for a ride to the Will County Jail.

She is accused of "kneeing" her boyfriend "about the head" and damaging the window to his car and having "grabbed him about the head."

The previous day, June 12, "She punched me in the nose and it started bleeding. I got a towel to hold the bleeding," the boyfriend stated in court records. "She continued to yell and push me. She burned me with a cigarette, she punched me multiple times in the nose again. Then she took a hammer and started to dent the roof and then smashed the window. She threw it through the window. "

Gehrke was yelling the whole time, court records state.

"She would tell me to go kill myself. She wishes I would die. Do us a favor. This continued for about two hours," the protection order reads.

And on May 31, "she started hitting and punching me in my head, back, arms, everywhere ... she punched me and broke my nose. As soon as she saw the blood she calmed down and got sympathetic and took me to the emergency room. The police came to the hospital. I wouldn't tell them it was Leighanne that did this to me. I was treated and went home."

According to the boyfriend, "She threatens to take the dogs and I will never see them. She will go into a rage and then love bomb me ... I am afraid for my dogs. I don't know what she is capable of doing."

Gehrke was given a $15,000 bail, and she came up with $1,500 cash, 10 percent, on June 14. However, she is forbidden from having an contact with the boyfriend and she must stay away the residence on Chestnut Lane, as ordered by the judge.

Mugshot of Leighanne Gehrke via Will County Sheriff