New Lenox Man Jailed 4th Time In 4 Months, Contacted Woman He Attacked: Cops

A New Lenox man was locked up for the fourth time in four months—this time for contacting a former girlfriend he allegedly attacked in January.

Justin Ruch, 33, of 124 Gall Lane was booked into the Will County jail Friday afternoon. He was charged with violating an order of protection.

The charges against Ruch are on file at the Will County Circuit Clerk's Office but the criminal complaint was not available Friday.

Ruch was also booked into the county jail twice in January and once in February. He was most recently released May 1, according to jail records, but only managed to stay free for eight days.

Gall was first taken into custody Jan. 10 on charges of home invasion, unlawful restraint, aggravated domestic battery and domestic battery. He was arrested for allegedly breaking into the home of his girlfriend, then dragging her by the hair, choking her and performing a sex act on her against her will.

Later charges of stalking and criminal damage stemmed from an incident two days before the alleged attack. A criminal complaint against Ruch said he followed his girlfriend from Black Road in Joliet to her house.

In a petition for a protective order against Ruch, the girlfriend wrote she was "just getting home from a date" that night when Ruch pulled up in his car and pursued her on foot.

"He started to chase me," the girlfriend wrote in her petition. " I went inside and locked the door. He started beating my house with a snow shovel and throwing empty beer cans at my house. He said let me in you stupid bitch. I want to talk. I told him the neighbors were watching. He left in his car. He was intoxicated."

Ruch was charged with domestic battery three other times in cases involving the same woman. He pleaded guilty in one instance, was found guilty after a trial another time and once had the charge dropped when the "complaining witness" failed to come to court, records show.

Go check out our Facebook page.