Trouble In Rockdale: 'Defendant Was Tearing Up The Upstairs, Throwing And Breaking Things: PD

ROCKDALE, IL — The Will County State's Attorney's Office filed aggravated battery charges against Otis Avenue resident Kari Love of Rockdale in connection with Friday's arrest by the Rockdale Police Department. The 49-year-old Rockdale woman, who is also known as Kari Mobley, is charged with aggravated battery, domestic battery and disorderly conduct.

According to the prosecution's petition to deny pretrial release, on Friday, at 4:12 p.m., Officer Jones was sent to the 900 block of Otis Avenue for a domestic disturbance. The officer is familiar with the house because he's responded to past domestics involving Love and her boyfriend, who both live with the man's mother.

This time, Officer Jones heard screaming coming from inside the house. He went inside and saw Love and the victim, the 77-year-old woman, arguing, court files show. Love was in the woman's face yelling and vowing to "kick her ass;" the Rockdale officer tried to separate the two women but Love "persisted in screaming," the prosecutors reminded the judge.

Eventually, Rockdale Deputy Police Chief Robert Baikie arrived on scene, and he talked with the victim in a separate room. She told Rockdale police that Love was tearing up the upstairs by throwing and breaking things, court documents note. When the older woman confronted her son's girlfriend, Love became enraged and pushed (her) causing her to nearly fall. (The victim) is not in the best of the health, and these events caused her to become extremely upset to the point of hyperventilation," the court files show.

According to the criminal complaint, Love pushed the Rockdale homeowner about the body and knowingly screamed and threatened in such unreasonable manner as to alarm another person and provoke a breach of the peace.

After hearing the evidence, Will County Judge Victoria Kennison ruled in favor of Love, ordering the woman's release from the jail on Sunday. In 2022, Love was convicted of a third offense aggravated DUI crime after the Illinois State Police arrested her along I-55 in Wilmington Township back in July 2021. Court files from that case indicate Love drove under the influence of meth at the time of her arrest.