CHANNAHON, IL —Syruss Box, a 35-year-old Channahon resident, must remain in the Will County Jail indefinitely now that Will County Judge Dave Carlson has found that Box meets the dangerousness standard. Box choked a woman at his house, almost to the point of losing consciousness, according to the Will County prosecutor’s petition to deny pretrial release.
The State’s Attorney’s Office of Jim Glasgow has charged Box with seven crimes: two counts of aggravated domestic battery and five counts of domestic battery.
According to the petition to deny pretrial release, Channahon police were called to Box’s house in the 22600 block of Woodside Drive on Feb. 19 for an aggravated domestic battery crime. The victim told officers Box had lived there for the past several months, and he attacked her. She and Box were arguing about whether Box was cheating on her, court documents show, and her accusations angered Box.
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He punched her in the face several times, and then he began to choke her, grabbing her throat and squeezing it, finally dragging the woman across the floor, court files note. The woman told officers she almost lost consciousness during the attack. The woman suffered a swollen left eye and lip, and she had several red scratches to her neck.
Box’s pretrial release poses a safety threat to one or more persons, the prosecutors argued.
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The victim is 5-foot-3 and 135 lbs while Box is 5-foot-8 and weighs 260 lbs. Box was also free on bond for a 2020 aggravated discharge of a gun charge out of Cook County and another 2020 charge from Cook County of unlawful use of a weapon.
According to the petition, Box’s prior criminal history includes three separate 2009 domestic battery charges being dismissed in Cook County; a 2007 attempted murder charge in Cook County being dismissed; 2014 domestic battery charges in Cook County being dismissed; a 2021 telephone harassment and assault charge being dismissed in Cook County; 106 days, with credit for 53 days already served, at the Illinois Department of Corrections for a 2015 domestic battery conviction in Will County; 200 days at the DOC for 2010 convictions of domestic battery in Cook County; 100 days at the DOC for a 2010 violation of protection order conviction in Cook County; 60 days at the DOC for a 2009 violation of protection order in Cook County; 60 days at the department of corrections for a 2008 domestic battery in Cook County.
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In 2022, Box pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in Cook County and a domestic battery charge was dropped under the plea agreement, court files outline.
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