Orland Man Charged With Battering Police, Breaking Door Handles In Cop Car

Caption: John Bradley, 23, of Orland Park. | Cook County Sheriff

An Orland Park man battered a police officer and damaged a patrol car in what is being termed a domestic disturbance, prosecutors said in court on Friday.

Prosecutors said that police answered a domestic disturbance call in the 10400 block of 153rd Street, Orland Park, around 12:41 a.m. July 17.

Bradley allegedly battled police officers when he was taken into custody. As police drove him to the station, officers later discovered that Bradley had broken the interior door handles in the back of the police car, prosecutors said.

The Orland Park man’s private attorney told the judge that Bradley has no prior convictions. He’s a college graduate and licensed pilot, who was recently admitted in the Navy’s officer command school.

Bradley has a pending felony case for aggravated battery with a deadly of weapon and unlawful restraint when Orland Park police said he beat up his 53-year-old mother and cut her face with a knife last February, Patch reported.

His attorney stated that the arrests centered around his mother’s deteriorating mental condition. After Friday’s hearing, Bradley’s mother told Patch that she had been at the Orland Park Police Station trying to get help for her son, who was suicidal and depressed. He was on the phone with her when he was arrested.

Bradley’s bail from the February case was revoked and he is currently being held at Cook County Jail. Bail for the new charges of resisting arrest and criminal damage to state supported property is set at $700,000.

Bradley is due back in court on July 23.