Judge's Son Locked Girlfriend in Trunk After Taking $70 to Buy Coke 'For Both Of Them' - Report

The son of Will County Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes snatched $70 out of his girlfriend’s wallet to buy cocaine, then choked her, locked her in the trunk of a car and hit her in the face after he let her out, according to reports recently released by the sheriff’s department.

The Will County Sheriff’s Department resisted releasing reports detailing the arrest of Alessio Policandriotes’ son, Louis Goode, for more than 15 months after Patch requested them.

The reports give the first official indication that Judge Alessio Policandriotes witnessed her son as he battered his girlfriend and — rather than reporting the matter to police — chose instead to drive him away to his new job at the Will County Courthouse.

Judge Blacked Out

Even after cutting the reports loose, the sheriff’s department blacked out any mention of Judge Alessio Policandriotes, as well as all of the statements she supposedly made to detectives.

Despite the redactions, the reports indicate Judge Alessio Policandriotes refused to speak with detectives about her son for at least 30 days after the allegedly vicious attack on his girlfriend. The reports indicate that Alessio Policandriotes agreed to an interview with detectives no sooner than Nov. 5, 2014 — one day following the general election in which the judge was running for retention.

Deputy Chief Jerome Nudera — who fought against the release of the reports — and Sheriff Mike Kelley failed to respond when asked if Alessio Policandriotes was redacted from the reports because she is a judge. Nudera and Kelley also failed to answer when asked if the redactions were made because Alessio Polincadiotes is married to Will County Deputy Anthony Policandriotes.

Deputy Policandriotes posted $2,000 bail for his stepson’s release from jail after Grundy County Judge Robert Marsagalia reduced it from $5,000. Judge Marsaglia, who was appointed to the case to avoid the appearance of a conflict, also sealed the court file for a protective order obtained by Goode’s allegedly beaten girlfriend, 30-year-old Tanya Brandolino, effectively making the case disappear from public view.

Marsaglia would not explain why he put the court file under wraps. Goode’s attorney, public defender Edward Jacquays, said the case was pulled from public view by request.

“The parties asked for it, that’s all I can tell you,” Jacquays said.

The Night in Question

While the reports describing Goode’s alleged October 2014 attack on his girlfriend were almost completely blacked out by the sheriff’s department, some of what Goode, 30, supposedly told detectives can still be read.

On Oct. 6, 2014, Goode was approached by detectives at the Will County Courthouse, where he was starting the first day at his new job as an administrative assistant. Goode was able to land the county job despite still being on probation for a felony cocaine conviction in Missouri. A prosecutor in Callaway County, Missouri, has since filed to revoke Goode’s probation. If his probation is revoked, Goode faces up to seven years in prison.

After a detective contacted him in the courthouse, Goode waived his right to remain silent and agreed to speak without a lawyer present, according to the reports.

Goode went on tell how, about 4:30 p.m. the day before, he returned to the Barber Lane home outside Joliet where he lives with Brandolino, her parents, her child and the son he has with her. He played with the children and put them to bed.

Before turning in himself, Goode removed $70 from someone’s wallet, presumably Brandolino’s, although the name is redacted. He took the money “to buy a bag of coke … ‘for both of them,’” the report said.

Some time later, Goode was woken and struck — again, presumably by Brandolino — who threatened to call the cops, the redacted report said. Goode snatched her cell phone away, broke it over his knee and, because her parents were in the next room, the couple went outside to “talk.”

Brandolino “threatened to take his son away from him,” the report said, so Goode told detectives he “grabbed (redacted) by the arm and dragged her to the car and put her inside the trunk.”

“Louis stated that he told (redacted) that he would drive the car off of a cliff,” the report said.

While the report is redacted, the sheriff’s department previously stated that Goode locked Brandolino in the trunk.

Goode only kept her in the trunk for about 10 seconds, the report said. When she got out she was hyperventilating, so he “hit her across the face two or three times.” Goode also admitted to choking her “some time prior to putting her in the trunk.” He also mentioned that he drank 12 or 13 beers the night of the incident.

The Morning After

The next morning, before Goode left for work, he and Brandolino again reportedly argued, the reports said. During the argument, he pushed her to the ground and threatened to kill her.

The sheriff’s department previously said Judge Alessio Policandiotes stopped by that morning to pick her son up and drive him to the courthouse for his new job. The judge’s name is redacted from the police reports, but they say Goode told detectives that the person who picked him up that morning “witnessed the altercation in the garage/driveway area.”

In the time between his interview with detectives and his trip to the county jail, Goode was “provided with a meal from McDonald’s,” the report said.

A sheriff’s deputy sent to the Barber Lane home the morning of Goode’s arrest reportedly found two damaged cell phones, a $20 bill that had been torn in half and a single that had been torn into fourths.

A deputy photographed abrasions on Brandolino’s neck and bruises to her upper arms, according to the reports. She also reportedly complained of soreness to her arms and torso.

Where the Case Stands

Goode’s case remains pending. He faces felony charges of aggravated domestic battery and unlawful restraint, and misdemeanor counts of domestic battery.

Goode was set to plead earlier this month but Jacquays and special prosecutor Charles Colburn put the hearing off for several weeks. At the time, Jaquays explained to Judge Marsaglia that the petition to revoke Goode’s probation in Missouri had yet to be resolved, and the matter needed to be attended to before he could plead in Illinois.

Louis Goode Police Reports by Joseph_Hosey_Patch