'He Was Going To Kill Her And Bury Her Body': Crying Joliet Woman Tells Police Officers
JOLIET, IL — A 30-year-old Joliet resident who comes from the 700 block of North Hickory Street will remain in the Will County Jail under the SAFE-T-Act, after prosecutors accused Tobias Dominguez of attacking a woman and dragging her by her pain, causing more pain.
The Will County State's Attorney's Office has charged Dominguez with aggravated battery and five crimes of domestic battery.
According to court files, Joliet police responded to a house in the 300 block of Mississippi Avenue at 7:50 p.m. after a woman called 911 and was crying. The woman, crying, eventually came outside after Joliet police showed up and she could only speak Spanish. Officers found bruises all around her neck and she indicated that Dominguez dragged her by her hair. The woman had been in a romantic relationship with him for the past year and a half, court records show.
Joliet police found broken glass to a front storm door and glass all over the ground inside and outside the doorway. The woman revealed that Dominguez also lives with her and she indicated that the bruising to her neck came from the previous day when he pulled her by her hair, choked her and forced her drink vodka before making her perform oral sex on him, court documents advise.
The woman also indicated that Dominguez "was drunk and did cocaine tonight," prosecutors noted.
Meanwhile, Joliet officers Johnston and Ditello found Dominguez sound asleep in a first floor bedroom. He was wearing his ankle monitor, which he received as part of a 2025 sentence for a different domestic battery crime.
The woman revealed that she was afraid to obtain help from the police "due to Dominguez threatening her. He has told her on multiple occasions that he was going to kill her and bury her body," prosecutors outlined.
The victim also informed Joliet police that she helped get Dominguez out of the Will County Jail "due to an associate of Dominguez coming to her and threatening her to get him out or else they would kill her," prosecutors stated.
Dominguez was just arrested on Oct. 23 for a domestic battery crime against the same victim, court documents indicate. He was then released from the jail on Dec. 15 and put on electronic monitoring pursuant to a plea of guilty.
The victim also told Joliet police that "Tobias Dominguez is not his real name and it is only an alias that he uses in the United States. She further stated that Dominguez has a lot of involvement with cartels from Mexico and she is afraid of Dominguez and his associates," prosecutors pointed out. "Dominguez hides his actual Mexico paperwork from her due to him not trusting her to tell police."
The victim told the officers that about three months ago, Dominguez broke her bedroom door and emerged with a knife; he also punched her in the cheekbone with a closed fist and broke her cheekbone about four to five months ago, court documents indicate. The victim advised that she was treated at Silver Cross Hospital and underwent surgery.
She indicated that Dominguez "told her he has high caliber weapons inside the basement but she has not seen any of them. She does not know where in the basement he is hiding the weapons he claims he has in his possession. She also said that he is selling narcotics and has told her in the past he will kill her kids if she ever calls the police on him," prosecutors revealed.
Prosecutors noted that in Dominguez's criminal history, all from Will County, he had a 2017 aggravated DUI, an April 2025 domestic battery that was dropped because the victim did not cooperate with prosecutors. Then Dominguez was given 12 months of conditional discharge and 523 days in the jail when he was sentenced in December for the Oct. 23 domestic battery crime involving the same victim.
