Oregon man charged after attacking woman with knife, asking her to kill him, police say

SYCAMORE - An Oregon man is facing charges after police say he got into several arguments with a woman, waved a knife in her face, pulled her pants down, took her phone so she couldn't call 911 and asked her to kill him.

Jonathan Robles, 31, of Oregon, is charged with home invasion, criminal trespass to residence, domestic battery and unlawful interference with the report of a domestic violence incident. If convicted of the most serious crime, home invasion, Robles could face up to 30 years in jail and fines up to $250,000.

During a bond hearing at the DeKalb County Courthouse Thursday, Circuit Clerk Judge Robbin Stuckert set Robles' bail at $15,000, though the DeKalb County State's Attorney's Office asked for a $250,000 bond. Robles would need to post $1,500 to get out of DeKalb County Jail, and he'd be placed on electronic home monitoring and forbidden to contact the alleged victim.

According to DeKalb County court records, Robles attacked the woman with whom he'd been living on Wednesday afternoon, after she asked him to leave her home in Sycamore. He left, but returned uninvited twice Wednesday, documents show, once through an unlocked front door and the second time, shortly before 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, through an unlocked garage door.

The woman told Sycamore police Robles was upset that she'd just broken up with him and "could not accept it," documents show.

Around 1 p.m. Wednesday, the woman told police Robles took out a large fixed blade knife and waved it in her face, telling her to kill him. She ran away and attempted to call 911, but he chased her, pushed her to the ground, began to pull her pants down but stopped when they got caught around her knees, records show. During the commotion, she was scratched in her leg.

He then took her phone away from her, called his phone with her phone so he could have her new number, threw her phone back at her and left, documents show.

The woman told police this was the second time Robles had been physically violent with her.

When police arrested Robles, he told them she had lied to him multiple times that morning and punched him in the face, though police reports indicated no markings were visible on his face to indicate he'd been attacked that way, records show.

Robles admitted to police he'd thrown his knife on the table and told the woman to kill him, but did not admit to waving it in her face, according to police reports from the Sycamore Police Department.

According to the reports, Robles told police he put his arms around the woman's waist while she was hitting him, causing her pants to fall down. Police say Robles changed his story several times during the interview.

During his bond hearing Thursday, Robles became visibly upset as the judge read his charges, at times crying.

Stuckert said while he has not been convicted of any violent offenses in the past, he has three failure to appear warrants and was convicted in 2007 of a misdemeanor, criminal trespass to state land, and was placed on probation as a result.

He's set to appear for a status hearing at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 17.