Taser Subdues Bolingbrook Man Who Kicked Police: Cops

BOLINGBROOK, IL - Bolingbrook Police officers used a taser early Sunday to subdue a 33-year-old Bolingbrook resident after police say Ricardo Espinoza began kicking officers who responded to a domestic violence call in the 400 block of Rockhurst Road. Police arrived around 2:45 a.m. on Sunday after the 911 call from a screaming woman begging for help was disconnected, police say. The defendant was later taken into custody and charged with two counts of domestic battery, two counts of aggravated battery against a police officer, resisting arrest and interfering with the reporting of domestic violence.

According to Bolingbrook's Police Department, once the squad cars arrived in the neighborhood of the domestic violence, officers learned that the woman was punched in the face. When the woman had tried calling 911 moments earlier, police say, Espinoza yanked the phone out of her hand and hung it up.

"Espinoza then held the victim down and would not allow her to go …" police reports state.

Bolingbrook Police say that Espinoza looked intoxicated and became "combative with officers, kicking one of the officers. A taser was deployed and Espinoza was taken into custody," reports show.

The domestic violence victim and the officer who got kicked did not require hospitalization, police said.

As of Tuesday morning, Espinoza remained lodged in the Will County facing a $300,000 bail. Jail records show that Espinoza was in Will County detention from January 1, 2017 through late February 2017 after Bolingbrook Police officers arrested him on multiple counts of aggravated battery to a police officer as well as multiple counts of aggravated domestic battery on New Year's Day, 2017. The six criminal charges against Espinoza from his 2017 Bolingbrook arrest are still pending at the courthouse in Joliet.

Mugshot of Ricardo Espinoza via Will County Sheriff