Skooter's Stabber Surrenders: Cops

JOLIET, IL — A Shorewood woman wanted for allegedly stabbing another woman at Skooter’s Roadhouse surrendered to the cops Friday morning.

Domenica Loiacono, 22, turned herself in at the Joliet Police Department and posted $7,500 cash for her release.

Loiacono was wanted for more than two months on felony charges of aggravated battery for allegedly stabbing a 21-year-old woman in the leg.

Loiacono and the other woman got into an altercation at Skooter’s on Jan. 24, police said. Loiacono reportedly left the bar, returned with a knife and stabbed the other woman in the leg.

The wound was serious and the injured woman underwent surgery, police said.

The charges were filed against Loiacono eight days after the alleged stabbing.

Loiacono’s alleged knife attack was just the latest incident of violence reported in connection with Skooter’s, a country-western hotspot on West Jefferson Street.

The police also arrested a Minooka mixed martial arts fighter for allegedly thrashing a man to brink of death in February. Michael “Wardog” Reid, 22, and a man identified by police as either his brother or half brother, 27-year-old Nicholas Ventsias, were both charged with the brutal beating and remain in custody at the Will County jail.

Reid worked as a bouncer at Skooter’s, police said. He and Ventsias allegedly got into a squabble with two men in the parking lot after the bar closed, then followed them down the road to Burger King.

The owner of Skooter’s, 55-year-old Peter Gelis, was battered in his own bar by a Romeoville man whose wife went on to attack a bouncer, police said. Jeremy Durr, 23, and his wife, 25-year-old Ileana Leyva, were both charged with battery in connection with the alleged February altercation.