3 Female Victims During Home Invasion On Hammes Ave. Lead To SAFE-T Act Detention: Prosecutors Reveal

JOLIET, IL — A 27-year-old from Romeoville is now being kept in the Will County Jail under the SAFE-T Act after Joliet police arrested Donnie Jones Jr. over the weekend on 10 charges, including home invasion, criminal trespass, six counts of domestic battery and two counts of battery.

The allegations set forth by prosecutors allege that Jones climbed through an unlocked window of a house while three women, including two ex-girlfriends, were inside in the living room watching television. They used a glass blender from the kitchen, breaking it over his head to stop him from further attacking and hurting them, court files show.

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Will County Judge Donald DeWilkins decided to keep Jones in custody for an indefinite period of time under the SAFE-T Act. Jones has been in the Will County Jail two previous times, in February when Romeoville police arrested him and in March 2025, when it was the Will County Sheriff's Office.

The location of the Joliet home invasion was in the 200 block of South Hammes Avenue, prosecutors outlined in their petition to deny pretrial release.

According to prosecutors: at 1:43 a.m. on Saturday, Joliet Police responded to South Hammes after a female caller reported that someone just broke the window of her residence. Joliet police dispatchers heard the 911 caller tell the person not to push her, and she later revealed his name was Donnie Jones, prosecutors said.

Police said Joliet Sgt. Brian Montello arrived on scene first, and ultimately finding Jones in the 300 block of Hammes Avenue, sitting inside a Jeep SUV. Because Jones required immediate ER care, the Joliet Fire Department took him to Ascension St. Joseph's Hospital, court files show.

Back at the house on South Hammes, three women told Joliet police they were attacked by Jones after he forced himself into their house without permission. Two of the women were Jones' ex-girlfriends, while the third did not know Jones, according to prosecutors.

The women went on to tell Joliet police they were sitting on the couch watching television when one of them began receiving several phone calls from Jones.

Then came the incident.

One of the victims explained that "she was immediately frightened by movements and noise coming from the front window, which was then forcefully opened from the outside," prosecutors alleged. "Defendant made entry through the front living room window and into her living room, where he immediately began to physically strike her in the head with his closed fists, pulling her hair."

The victim retreated to her kitchen and grabbed a glass blender and struck Jones in the face with it, court files reflect. The glass blender shattered, and Jones got off the ground and then began attacking a different woman, prosecutors said.

"She feared for her life, so she ran to hide in the lower level bathroom," court documents indicated.

At the scene, prosecutors said Officer Nowak noticed the woman had a visible red, swollen and bruised knot on the right side of her forehead plus lacerations on both legs. She complained of a headache, pain, and bleeding and requested to be evaluated by the paramedics on scene, prosecutors said.

Inside the house, prosecutors said Joliet police spotted multiple droplets of red bodily fluids in the kitchen and living room, as well as shattered glass scattered around the floor. Officer Nowak reviewed the initial Ring doorbell footage of Jones arriving at the residence, wearing all black clothing, then forcefully pulling her Ring doorbell camera off the mount, prosecutors said.

Back at St. Joe's hospital, Jones agreed to give a statement to Officer Nowak explaining his version of events.

Jones relayed that one of the women was "his ex-girlfriend of 13 years, but the other was his current girlfriend. Defendant stated that he is on and off with both women and consistently claimed they both called him all night and permitted him to come over," prosecutors said. "Defendant claimed that they all beat him up, which caused him to sustain injuries to his face and upper head. Defendant had visible red bloody lacerations to his right ear, top of his head, as well as a visible bloody laceration to the left eyebrow."