Sheriff's Department 'Improperly Withheld' Reports on Judge's Son's Arrest: AG

The Will County Sheriff’s Department was wrong to withhold police reports detailing the arrest of a judge’s son, according to a decision from the Illinois Attorney General’s Office.

Patch requested the reports more than 14 months ago but was denied by Deputy Chief Jerome Nudera.

Despite the attorney general handing down its decision Monday, the sheriff’s department has yet to release the reports.

The attorney general’s decision came the day before Louis Goode, the son of Will County Judge Carla Alessio Policandriotes, appeared in Grundy County court to possibly plead guilty. Goode’s attorney, Edward Jaquays, said a plea deal has actually been agreed to with special prosecutor Charles Colburn, but that he is still trying to work things out down in Missouri, where prosecutors have moved to revoke Goode’s probation.

Goode, 30, was put on probation in October 2011 after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine. He faces up to seven years in a Missouri prison if his probation is revoked.

In October 2014, Goode was jailed on charges of unlawful restraint, aggravated domestic battery and domestic battery for allegedly brutalizing 30-year-old Tanya Brandolino, his girlfriend and the mother of his son.

The night before he was arrested and into the following morning, Goode allegedly battered and harassed Brandolino, at one point locking her in the trunk of a car before letting her out and heading to bed.

In the morning, his mother, Judge Alessio Policandriotes, dropped by the Joliet house where Goode and Brandolino, as well their son, her child and her parents, were living, police said. While it’s not clear whether Alessio Policandriotes saw any of the alleged attack, Brandolino accused the judge of looking on as her son threatened to kill her.

“She got out of the car and said Lou get in the car,” Brandolino claimed in a petition for a protective order against Goode.

Incidentally, Grundy County Judge Robert Marsaglia put the entire case file for the protective order under wraps in December 2014, essentially making the matter disappear from public view.

Marsaglia was assigned both the criminal and protective order cases because Goode’s mother is a Will County judge.

In the now sealed petition, Brandolino went on to say that Goode “then threw the phone into the garage (and) he said in front of his mother I’m going to kill you you’ll never get custody of your son better get a good lawyer.”

Judge Alessio Policandriotes then drove her son to the first — and only — day of his new job at the Will County courthouse, where he had been hired to work as an office assistant. Goode managed to land the county job despite being on probation for pleading guilty to the felony cocaine case in Missouri.

Goode has been free on bond since Judge Marsaglia reduced it from $50,000 to $20,000, and his stepfather, Will County Sheriff’s Detective Tony Policandriotes, bailed him out.

On Tuesday, Marsaglia agreed to modify Goode’s bond so he can leave the state. Goode was laid from his job off but has the opportunity to work around his aunt’s out-of-state home, doing repairs and renovations, Jaquays explained to the judge.