Parolee Reaches For Another Beer After Stabbing Girlfriend: Cops

TINLEY PARK, IL -- A Tinley Park man on parole for domestic battery punched and stabbed his girlfriend before reaching for another beer, prosecutors said. Scott Kobi, 53, appeared before Cook County Judge John Mahoney on charges of domestic battery and violating an order of protection.

According to the charges, Kobi’s live-in girlfriend came home on June 16 only to find Kobi passed out and drunk. Kobi woke up and started drinking beer. He allegedly pulled the woman to the floor, where he continued to punch and kick here. Kobi tried unsuccessfully to burn her with a cigarette before reaching for a knife, the prosecutor said.

Kobi allegedly stabbed the woman in the arm. When he went to get another beer, the prosecutor said the woman escaped to another room where she posted a Facebook message for her friends to call the Tinley Park police. Kobi was taken into custody when officers arrived at the woman’s home in the 7100 block of West 166th Street. Police brought the woman to a hospital for medical treatment.

The prosecutor said that Kobi is currently on parole from the Illinois Department of Corrections where he had been serving a two-year sentence for aggravated domestic battery involving the same woman. He also has twelve prior misdemeanor arrests for domestic battery but no convictions, according to court records.

The assistant public defender told the judge that Kobi has a colostomy bag and would require special medical treatment. He said Kobi had a place to stay if he bonded out.

“I don’t think I can set no bond,” the judge said, “but I can set half-million.”

Mahoney added that he thought Kobi was “grossly undercharged.” The assistant public defender asked if Kobi could be placed on a GPS tracker if released.

“I appreciate your advocacy, but he put himself there,” the judge said.

Bail was set at $500,000. Kobi’s next court date is July 30 in Bridgeview.