'He Was Going To Kill Her And Bury Her Body,' Crying Joliet Woman Tells Police: Prosecutor

JOLIET, IL — A 30-year-old Joliet resident from the 700 block of North Hickory Street will remain in the Will County Jail under the SAFE-T-Act, after Will County's prosecutors accused Tobias Dominguez of attacking a woman and dragging her by her hair, causing more pain.

The Will County State's Attorney's Office has charged Dominguez with aggravated battery and five crimes of domestic battery.

According to court files, Joliet police responded to a house in the 300 block of Mississippi Avenue at 7:50 p.m. Dec. 29 after a crying woman called 911. The woman eventually came outside after Joliet police showed up. Officers found bruises around her neck, and she indicated Dominguez dragged her by her hair.

Joliet police found broken glass to a front storm door and glass all over the ground inside and outside the doorway. The woman revealed that Dominguez also lives with her and the bruising to her neck came from the previous day when he pulled her by her hair, choked her and forced her to drink vodka before making her perform oral sex on him, court documents said.

Meanwhile, Joliet officers Johnston and Ditello found Dominguez asleep in a first-floor bedroom. He was wearing his ankle monitor, which he received as part of his December 2025 sentence for a different domestic battery crime against the same woman, court documents reflect.

The victim revealed she had been afraid to obtain help from Joliet police "due to Dominguez threatening her. He has told her on multiple occasions that he was going to kill her and bury her body," prosecutors outlined.

After being arrested on Oct. 23 for domestic battery, Dominguez was just released from the county jail on Dec. 15 and put on electronic monitoring pursuant to his plea of guilty.

The victim notified Joliet police that "Tobias Dominguez is not his real name, and it is only an alias that he uses in the United States. She further stated that Dominguez has a lot of involvement with cartels from Mexico and she is afraid of Dominguez and his associates," prosecutors said. "Dominguez hides his actual Mexico paperwork from her due to him not trusting her to tell police."

The victim told Joliet's officers that about three months ago, Dominguez broke her bedroom door and emerged with a knife; he also punched her with a closed fist and broke her cheekbone about four to five months ago, court documents indicate. The victim advised she was treated at Silver Cross Hospital and underwent surgery.

She indicated Dominguez "told her he has high caliber weapons inside the basement, but she has not seen any of them. She does not know where in the basement he is hiding the weapons he claims he has in his possession," prosecutors revealed.

Prosecutors noted that Dominguez's criminal history, all from Will County, includes a 2017 aggravated DUI, an April 2025 domestic battery that was dropped because the current victim did not cooperate with prosecutors. Then, Dominguez was given 12 months of conditional discharge and 52 days in jail when he was sentenced in December for the Oct. 23 domestic battery.