A Judge, Her Son, a Girlfriend, Cocaine, Threats, Blacked-Out Police Reports, and a Lot of Questions: Patch PM

Judge’s Son Locked Girlfriend in Trunk After Taking $70 to Buy Coke ‘For Both Of Them’: Report

If a judge witnesses a possible crime, would you expect that judge to notify police? And if that possible crime involved someone in the judge’s family, a son, perhaps, would you still expect police to be called? And would you want that judge to speak with investigators in a timely manner? The son of Will County Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes snatched $70 out of his girlfriend’s wallet to buy cocaine, then choked the girlfriend, locked her in a car trunk, and hit her in the face after he let her out, according to reports recently released by the Will County sheriff’s department — 15 months after Patch requested them.

The reports, heavily redacted, give the first official indication that the judge witnessed her son, Louis Goode, as he battered his girlfriend and — rather than reporting the matter to police — chose instead to drive him away to his first day at a new job at the county courthouse.

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