RawNews1st – A judge in DuPage County, Illinois, said Thursday that a man from northwest Indiana should be held on $200,000 bond because he is accused of beating his girlfriend for hours with a belt and then hitting two police cars while running away from them at high speeds.
The DuPage County state’s attorney said that Reginald Hubbert, 40, of Merrillville, Indiana, is charged with two counts of domestic battery and two more counts of fleeing and eluding police. Both of these charges are felonies.
At the Speedway gas station at Roosevelt Road and Washington Street in West Chicago, a woman told police that her boyfriend, Hubbert, had beaten her at her house.
The woman told police that she and Hubbert started fighting before it got physical, the attorney’s office said.
Prosecutors say the woman said Hubbert hit her with a belt about 100 times over the course of several hours and wouldn’t let her leave her home.
It wasn’t clear how the woman got out of the house and to the gas station so quickly.
A short time later, Hubbert was found in his car at the same gas station, according to the prosecutors.
Hubbert drove away when police tried to talk to him and did not stop when told to. Hubbert’s car is said to have gone as fast as 70 mph in a 35-mph zone.
Prosecutors say Hubbert was arrested after his car hit two police cars, one from West Chicago and one from Warrenville, before stopping on Interstate 88.
DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said, “It is alleged that a verbal argument between Mr. Hubbert and his girlfriend turned physical resulting in Mr. Hubbert administering an hours-long, vicious beating with a belt,” The fight started as a verbal argument between Mr. Hubbert and his girlfriend.
“It is further alleged that in an attempt to avoid responsibility for his actions, Mr. Hubbert displayed a complete lack of respect for the law and public safety by leading police on a high-speed chase along a busy roadway.”
Hubbert will have to go back to court on Feb. 9 to be charged.
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