WILMINGTON — The Will County State’s Attorney’s Office of Jim Glasgow was able to convince Judge Donald DeWilkins to keep twice-convicted domestic abuser Carl Ellis in the Will County Jail in connection with last weekend’s attempted strangling of a woman in Wilmington.
Prosecutors at the Will County Courthouse charged Ellis, now 31 years old, with aggravated domestic battery and four counts of domestic battery. Ellis has one previous domestic battery conviction in Will County from 2017 and one domestic battery conviction from Grundy County in 2016, court records show.
The Will County Sheriff’s Office was responsible for investigating last weekend’s crime and arresting Ellis.
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According to the prosecutor’s petition to deny pretrial release for Ellis:
Sheriff’s deputies were called out to the 19000 block of West Goodwin Road in Wilmington for a domestic problem and Ellis was the caller, “however, he was not being cooperative over the phone,” prosecutors informed the judge. As deputies arrived at the house, they saw a woman walking away. She told them Ellis came home from work and attacked her. She said he struck her in the face and was choking her, but she did not fully lose the ability to breath, court records show.
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The woman had a red mark and small cuts to her cheek plus red marks to her neck. She declined medical treatment. As for Ellis, he told sheriff’s deputies that the woman wanted to go to Joliet to buy drugs and he said no, and they fought and argued.
Ellis maintained that she pulled his hair and then he pushed her face. “The defendant’s statement did not include an explanation of how she reached his hair from the passenger seat while he was standing outside of the car,” prosecutors outlined. “When asked if (she) wanted to press charges, she just said no, she just wanted to leave.”
Eventually, sheriff’s deputies asked Ellis to step down from the porch on Goodwin Road but he refused and tried to enter the house, prosecutors noted. “The defendant struggled and resisted but was placed under arrest.”
In addition to his two prior domestic battery convictions from 2017 and 2016, “the defendant admitted to selling mushrooms and acid in 23CF1422,” prosecutors pointed out.
As of Friday afternoon, Ellis remained in detention at the Will County Jail, he was also kept there for 60 days from last Nov. 15 until Jan. 15, jail logs show.
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