Louis Goode Gets More Privileges After Posting $750,000 Bail

JOLIET, IL — Things continue to improve for Louis Goode, the 35-year-old Joliet resident who became a fugitive from justice last year after skipping out on a random drug test at the Will County Courthouse, according to court documents. At the time Goode left Will County in August 2019, he was facing four felony domestic battery counts in connection with allegations he beat up a woman, tossed her out of his Hummer and drove away during an argument in October 2018.

The son of now-retired Will County Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes has been chronicled in numerous Joliet Patch crime stories over the past five years.

In March, Patch reported that Goode was captured in Denver, Colorado. On Aug. 20, Goode was booked into custody at the Will County Jail. By Sept. 2, Goode's stepfather, retired Will County Sheriff's deputy Anthony Policandriotes, bailed Goode out of custody, posting 10 percent of Goode's $750,000, court files show.

Meanwhile, Goode's 2018 felony domestic violence charges are back on the docket at the Will County Courthouse. Goode continues to be represented by one of Joliet's best-known private criminal defense attorneys, George Lenard.

This month, Will County Judge Ed Burmila granted Lenard's motion allowing his client to hold a job while he awaits trial. The judge's order indicates that Goode was granted a bond modification to allow him to attend an on-site interview at Logistics Drive in Joliet.

Burmila also ordered Goode's bond to be modified so he can perform work at one of the lots located at Shannon Lakes in South Wilmington.

On Sept. 21, the judge entered an order modifying the conditions of Goode's bond to permit:

• Goode to attend church at Saint John of San Francisco Orthodox Church on West Laraway Road in Frankfort every Sunday from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
• Goode to travel to NA and AA meetings Monday through Saturday at Joliet's Grace United Methodist Church at Larkin Avenue and Avalon Avenue, from 6:45 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
• Goode to live at a house in Joliet in the 1600 block of Arden Place.
• Goode to grocery shop on Saturdays from 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Back on Sept. 2, the judge heard arguments from the lawyers on setting bail for Goode. The judge agreed to set bail at $750,000 for the Will County prisoner who skipped town and fled the state in August 2019 only to be captured in Colorado seven months later.

However, Will County's judicial system established the following rules in the event that Goode posted the $750,000 bail:

• Goode will be required to wear a GPS monitor
• Goode cannot leave home for any reason except for court, medical care or to attend his drug or psychologist counseling.
• Goode cannot have any contact with the victim or her residence in Joliet.
• Goode must continue to comply with all rules of his Missouri parole agent.

In December 2018, Joliet Patch published an article headlined, "Louis Goode Could Kill Me, Brandolino Fears."

According to court records, Goode and his wife at the time, Tanya Brandolino, were visiting Goode's family's lake house on Oct. 12, 2018 and during their travels, "we got caught by a train which was going to make us late," Brandolino wrote the court.

"I had asked him many times to slow down because I was at fear for our safety. He kept telling me to shut up and then proceeded to back hand me across the face causing my sunglasses to cut my cheek," Brandolino notified the court.

As their argument intensified, Goode "threw his can of chewing tobacco at my left eye which resulted in me getting a black eye," Brandolino stated. "At this point, I was extremely upset and crying."

As he remained behind the wheel, Goode grabbed her ponytail and "was whipping my head back and forth. I decided it would be safer for me to get in the back of the Hummer so I could get away from him, but as I was trying to crawl into the back seat, Louis slammed on the brakes causing my body to fly into the back of the Hummer," she wrote.

Eventually, Goode pulled the Hummer to the side of the road "and came to the back of the Hummer and punched me in the mouth. After we got off the highway, I told him that I was going to have my son's bus driver call the police. Louis then pulled into a warehouse parking lot, came to the back (of) the car and dragged me out of the car. He then got back in the driver's seat and sped away, leaving me there with nothing," Brandolino wrote the court.