He Refused To Go To Bed With Her, Joliet Police Deploy Taser 3 Times Before He Fell Into The Bushes: Cops

JOLIET, IL — A 32-year-old Joliet man, Makhi Jones, will remain in the Will County Jail under the SAFE-T-Act following this week's capture by the Joliet police force after Jones ran from a house trying to avoid being arrested, court files show.

Now incarcerated for the first time since 2022, Jones faces charges of aggravated battery and four domestic battery crimes. According to the prosecution's petition to deny pretrial, Joliet police responded to the 2800 block of Frank Turk Drive in the Plainfield area on May 18 where they found a woman bleeding from her mouth.

She told them Jones hit her in the face several times. The officers told Jones to put his hands behind his back because he was being arrested. And that's when Jones ran out of the house, pushing past multiple officers; he ran into the backyard as the officers deployed tasers three times, court files show.

After being struck in the back by one of the tasers, Jones ran toward a line of backyard bushes where he fell to the ground. He suffered a cut to the top of his head an injury to his right hand after falling into all of the bushes.

At that point, the Joliet police re-interviewed the victim. She advised that she and Jones got into an argument "over defendant not going to bed with her," court documents reflect.

When she tried to wake Jones up, he attacked her and hit her in the face with a closed fist and he pushed and slammed her, prosecutors noted.

Providing more details, the woman told the officers that she and Jones were in their car and Jones was asleep. She tried to wake Jones up go inside so that she could go to the gas station; when Jones woke up, he exited and opened the door to her car with anger. Jones later fell asleep on the couch in the living room. The woman said she later tried waking Jones so he could go to sleep in their bed, but Jones would not wake up and she blurted out, "What, your girlfriend said you can't come get into bed with me?" court files revealed.

She then tried to tap him on the chest to wake him up and he got up from the couch and hit her in the mouth, prosecutors noted. After both of them fell to the couch, Jones "put his hands around her throat and applied pressure but did not stop her from breathing... during the struggle, defendant slammed her onto the couch at least twice and put his hands around her throat again but did not cut off her ability to breathe," prosecutors indicated.

Prosecutors informed Judge Donald DeWilkins that Jones was convicted in 2022 of aggravated battery to a police officer and was sentenced to three years of prison. He has a 2021 armed habitual criminal arrest and was sentenced in 2022 for state benefit fraud. He also served a five-year prison sentence for an aggravated battery crime from 2015.