Woman charged with felony aggravated battery of a police officer in Sugar Grove

SUGAR GROVE TOWNSHIP – A woman charged with drunken driving was also charged with felony aggravated battery of a police officer after she shoved and kicked a deputy in the chest, according to Kane County Sheriff’s reports.

Raynne L. Alston, 31, of the 2100 block of Prentiss Drive, Downers Grove, was also charged Jan. 5 with aggravated DUI and escape from a police officer, both felonies. She was also charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest and driving with a revoked license and driving without insurance.

Deputies were called shortly after 9:30 p.m. Jan. 4 to the 43W300 block of Thornapple Tree Road in Sugar Grove Township, for a vehicle stuck in a ditch, according to the report.

Deputies found a 2003 silver Infiniti G35 parked facing east on Thornapple Tree Drive with a damaged driver’s door and Alston in the driver’s seat with blood on her left hand, the report stated.

“Alston’s eyes were glossy, watery and red in color,” the report stated. “Alston refused EMS (paramedics). Alston refused to speak to me when asked what happened to her vehicle. When asked about what occurred, Alston began to scream at (the person who called 911) for calling the police.”

Each time Alston was asked to identify herself, she refused and “became belligerent by screaming profanities at deputies,” the report stated.

Alston was warned she would be arrested for obstruction if she continued to refuse to identify herself; she continued to refuse and continued to scream profanities at deputies, the report stated.

Alston refused to put her hands behind her back to be handcuffed and walked away instead; a deputy grabbed her arm and she pulled away and continued to walk away, the report stated.

“Alston continued to resist by pulling her arm away and arguing with deputies. After Alston pulled away, it was discovered that Alston’s breast hung out of her shirt,” the report stated. “Alston was advised to cover herself up with her shirt and jacket that she was wearing. Alston refused to cover her breasts and continued arguing with deputies.”

Deputies gave her another opportunity to cover herself before being handcuffed, but she continued to refuse to cover up, the report stated.

The Sugar Grove Fire Department arrived to check on Alson’s bleeding fingers. After she was assisted up to the back of the ambulance, she “screamed profanities and began to jump up and down,” the report stated.

The fire department asked deputies to remove her from the ambulance. When a deputy attempted to help her down, she refused to exit the ambulance, the report stated.

“Alston shoved and kicked me in the chest and knocked my body camera off my person,” the deputy wrote in the report. “I grabbed Alston by the legs and with the help of (another deputy), picked Alston up and placed her on her feet on the road,” the report stated.

She continued to scream profanities at deputies as she was placed in the back of a patrol car; the fire department provided a blanket to cover her breast while she was in custody, the report stated.

Deputies requested a female officer to conduct a search of Alston’s body; while waiting, she screamed obscenities from the back of the patrol car, head-butted and kicked the window of the back seat, the report stated.

During the body search by a female deputy, Alston yelled profanities at her as well, the report stated.

When Alston was taken out of the patrol car to go into the jail transport van, “Alston shook herself loose and ran away from deputies about 100 feet north bound on Route 47 before falling on her stomach in the snow,” the report stated.

Deputies pursued and caught her, but she refused to walk back to the corrections van, so deputies lifted her up by her torso and legs and placed inside of the van, the report stated.

Because of her combative behavior, deputies were not able to conduct a field sobriety test on Alston, the report stated.

Alston was released on a personal recognizance bond and is to appear in court Feb. 16.

The terms of her bond include wearing a remote alcohol monitor, an order to have no drugs or alcohol and to submit to random drug testing as a condition of her bond, court records show.

According to DuPage County court records, Alston was charged with driving under the influence, battery and endangering the health or life of a child in Downer’s Grove on June 28, 2020. The charges are still pending with a court date of March 5, records show.

The next month, on July 28, 2020, Alston was charged in Naperville with speeding more than 35 miles over the speed limit, driving without insurance, expired license plates and with a revoked license and failure to secure a seatbelt for a child between 8 and 16 years old, court records show. Her next court date on that case is March 17, according to court records.