Joliet Domestic Battery Defendant Too Dangerous To Release Under SAFE-T-Act: Judge Connor Rules

JOLIET, IL —As the presiding weekend judge, Will County Judge John Connor imposed the SAFE-T-Act's dangerousness standard as he ordered Joliet's 42-year-old domestic battery defendant Andrew Attocchi to remain in the Will County Jail following Attocchi's latest arrest, during the wee hours of the morning.

Attocchi is charged with two crimes of domestic battery. The Joliet Police Department was responsible for taking Attocchi into custody on Saturday.

According to the criminal complaint, Attocchi is accused striking a woman in the forehead. Prosecutors revealed that Attocchi was also convicted of a 2022 domestic battery in neighboring Grundy County.

The petition to deny pretrial release notes that at 4:18 a.m. on Saturday, Joliet police responded to an apartment house in the 300 block of Lime Street for a domestic problem. The victim told the officers she lives there with Attocchi and her three children, ages 7, 1 and a newborn. The youngest two children belong to Attocchi, prosecutors noted.

The woman told officers that she was awake changing and cleanup after her son when her other son woke up and was throwing water on the floor. Attocchi then woke up upset calling the woman "a lazy bitch," prosecutors noted.

"When they crossed paths, he elbowed her on the forehead. Officers observed a bump on her forehead that was consistent with her statement and arrested the defendant," court files show. "He has a prior domestic battery in Grundy County ... his criminal history lists prior felonies from Florida that include aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, resisting with violence, possession of psilocybin and as a juvenile, felony escape and illegal use of a credit card."

Judge Connor has set Attocchi's next appearance at the Will County Courthouse for April 9 in Courtroom 405.