Woman Could Not Breathe Or Scream For Help During Attack: Joliet Police

JOLIET, IL — A 42-year-old Joliet man from the 700 block of Raub Street learned he must remain in the Wil County Jail after being charged with eight crimes following his Joliet police arrest in connection with allegations that he attacked and tried to choke a woman at his house.

Will County Judge Sherri Hale made the SAFE-T-Act ruling, notifying Allan Coronado he will remain the jail after prosecutors charged him with two counts of aggravated domestic battery, five counts of domestic battery and one count of interfering with the reporting of domestic violence.

According to the prosecution's petition to deny Coronado's pretrial release, at midnight on Aug. 15, Officer Gomez was called to Coronado's house in the 700 block of Raub Street for a domestic incident. The officer found a woman running down the stairs holding a baby as a man followed her. The man was told to get back, and he went back inside the house.

The woman told the Joliet officer that Coronado pulled her hair, kicked her in the legs, strangled her and struck her in the face twice as she was in bed with their 1-year-old daughter, prosecutors told Judge Hale.

The victim indicated Coronado had been drinking alcohol and grabbed her by her hair and threw her to the floor and an argument ensued.

When the victim complained of leg pain, Coronado grabbed her from the floor and threw her back into the bed and then grabbed her by the neck with one hand, court documents show. The woman told Joliet police she could not breathe or scream for help, but she did not lose consciousness.

The victim eventually hit Coronado in the face to get him to stop attacking her, prosecutors said. As for Coronado, he took the woman's phone and hid her car keys so she could not leave and when she tried to leave through a back door, he grabbed her by pulling her hair back and grabbing her by the neck, prosecutors revealed.

Coronado only stopped strangling her because their daughter was screaming and crying, court records pointed out. The victim locked herself in the bathroom and called 911 from her Apple Watch, prosecutors told Judge Hale.

As for Coronado, he told Joliet police that he never struck the woman, but he had pushed her when she was trying to take his daughter away from him. He claimed she injured her nose when she fell down trying to retrieve her phone that he threw into the sidewalk, court files reflect.

Coronado "then stated he took the phone because he pays for it," prosecutors noted.