Fight With Mom and Cops on Way to Court Lands Woman in Jail: Police

JOLIET, IL — A Lockport woman lost it after her mom drove her to court for a bond hearing, screaming obscenities and spitting on a cop who tried to calm her down, police said.

Andrea Cook, 23, was due in court Monday afternoon for a criminal trespassing case. Her mother drove her to the Joliet courthouse, police said, and in the parking lot, she suggested Cook go in early for the 1:30 call.

“For some reason, that set the daughter off,” police said, and Cook threw a tantrum.

Two officers on the downtown beat noticed the commotion in Cook’s mother’s van, police said. When they tried to intervene, Cook allegedly spat on one of them.

Cook struggled against the officers when they attempted to take her into custody, police said, flailing her arms and eventually falling to the ground. She then reportedly started slamming her head into the concrete and calling out that she wanted to die.

Cook was committed to Presence St. Joseph Medical Center, but was released from the hospital several hours later and taken to the Will County jail.

Cook caught the trespassing case for allegedly going to the downtown Joliet library in October after she had been ordered to stay away. Judge Cory Lund issued a warrant for her arrest on the trespassing case when he was told she missed court due to the incident in the parking lot, according to court records.