UPDATE: Northbrook Man Arrested For 65th Time After Brutal Domestic Battery

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UPDATE: A Northbrook man charged with brutally beating a woman and threatening to kill her children appeared in Cook County Circuit Court in Skokie on Friday, Oct. 7. Francisco Tirado, 27, a resident of unincorporated Northbrook, is charged with two counts of aggravated domestic battery and one count of aggravated unlawful restraint (all felonies) as well as two counts of domestic battery and one count of interference with emergency communications related to domestic violence. According to the Cook County Sheriff, it is the 65th time he has been arrested since 2001.

At his most recent appearance in court, attorney George S. Pfeifer was substituted for the public defender who had been previously appointed to represent Tirado. Judge Marcia Orr also extended a protection order that prohibits Tirado from contacting the victim and her family. Tirado's next court date was set for Tuesday, Oct. 25. He remains in jail on $300,000 bond.

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A Northbrook man was arrested Friday after he brutally beat a woman over the course of two days, held a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her two young children, according to a release from the Cook County Sheriff’s Department.

Francisco Tirado, 27, a resident of unincorporated Northbrook, was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated domestic battery and one count of aggravated unlawful restraint (all felonies) as well as two counts of domestic battery and one count of interference with emergency communications related to domestic violence. According to the Cook County Sheriff, it is the 65th time he has been arrested since 2001. 

Tirado allegedly came home very drunk on Thursday, Sept. 22, and urinated on the bathroom floor. When the woman confronted him about it, he beat her with his fists so violently that one of her eyes eventually swelled shut, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office. He also shoved her head into the toilet and kicked her head against it.

The following day, Tirado allegedly took her to a family member’s home and began assaulting her again, choking her until she nearly blacked out. He stopped only when a family member approached, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Department. He then ordered the woman to drive back to his home, but she tried to stop at police station on Milwaukee Avenue. At that point, he put a knife to her throat and held his hand across her five-week-old child’s neck, the Cook County Sheriff’s Department reports. Then he allegedly spat in the face of the baby and the woman’s 16-month-old child, threatening to kill them both if she didn’t drive home.

When they got back to his home, Tirado allegedly broke the woman’s phone and kept her there until early the next morning. When he fell asleep, she took her children and left the house to go to the police.

Tirado appeared in Skokie Circuit Court on Friday, where Cook County Judge Marcia Orr set his bond at $300,000 and issued an order of protection that prohibits him from contacting the woman he assaulted or her immediate family members, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Department.  

Over the last 10 years, Tirado’s prior arrests include charges of aggravated assault with a weapon, robbery, reckless conduct, domestic battery causing bodily harm, and striking and spitting in the face of a law enforcement officer, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Department. His next court date is set for Oct. 7.