An Aurora man faces a February preliminary hearing on a charge of domestic battery and other charges in connection to a New Year’s Eve incident which also involved a confrontation with a Batavia police officer.
Jeremy Allred, 33, is free on $10,000 bail amid allegations he injured a female family member by pushing her down in the parking lot of Les Arends Forest Preserve in Batavia around 3 p.m. Dec. 31, court documents state. That situation followed an incident the same day on Route 31 during which Allred drove alongside the woman’s car and tried five times to hit it, police said. The woman swerved into the oncoming lane of traffic to avoid being struck, according to charging documents.
As a Batavia police officer interviewed the woman in the forest preserve parking lot, Allred drove up to the officer’s squad car at a “high rate of speed” and “abruptly stopped” next to it. Allred refused the officer’s order to back the vehicle up and then walked with a hand hidden toward the officer while shouting obscenities, the charges state. When the officer ordered a “highly agitated” Allred to stop moving toward his vehicle, Allred told the officer “he would have to shoot him” for it to happen, court documents show.
Allred appeared in court Wednesday before Kane County Judge D.J. Tegeler, who scheduled a Feb. 1 preliminary hearing. Allred’s attorney has filed a demand for a speedy trial in the case.
Court records show Allred with primarily traffic violations, although he received probation in 2013 for a felony marijuana conviction. The woman involved in the Dec. 31 incident briefly obtained an order of protection against Allred in 2013.
Dan Campana is a freelance reporter for The Beacon-News.
