Overview

• Judge Joseph Bugos imposed concurrent five- and three-year terms, resulting in an overall eight-year prison sentence.
• Gonzalez pleaded guilty to one count each of aggravated DUI and aggravated cruelty to animals stemming from the two incidents.
• In December 2023, he was arrested after a traffic stop revealed he was speeding on a suspended Indiana license with a .131 blood alcohol content.
• On September 29, 2024, his 14-year-old stepdaughter alerted police that Gonzalez had killed their Shih Tzu, Rocco, and threatened her and her 11-year-old sister.
• A necropsy conducted by Naperville Animal Control determined blunt force trauma to the head as the cause of Rocco’s death.