New Lenox Resident Faces Battery Charges In Joliet

NEW LENOX, IL - A 23-year-old man who lives in New Lenox was recently arrested by Joliet Police on felony counts of aggravated battery after police say he attacked a woman during a domestic quarrel at the McDonough Street parking lot for the Rodeway Inn.

Austin G.H. Roesel was taken away in handcuffs by Joliet Police early Friday morning, Jan. 11. He was charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery, plus one count of domestic battery and one count of unlawful possession of marijuana.
The criminal complaint states that Roesel "without legal justification, knowingly made physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature" with the woman at the Rodeway Inn parking lot, 1730 McDonough Street, Joliet, "in that he struck (her) about the head."
The second aggravated battery count states Roesel "grabbed" (her) about the body. His third charge, accusing him of domestic battery, states the New Lenox man struck the woman, who was a family or household member, "about the head."
The fourth charge states that Roesel "knowingly and unlawfully possessed more than 30 grams but not more than 100 grams of any substance containing cannabis."
According to jail logs, Roesel lives in the 200 block of Hickory Street in New Lenox. He has been released from Will County's Jail after posting 10 percent of his $30,000 bail.

Mugshot of Austin Roesel via Will County Sheriff