Woman arrested after crashing car into a home following an altercation

Posted on June 3, 2025

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) — A Bloomington woman was arrested after crashing her SUV into a home at least once.

Officers with the Bloomington Police Department were called to the 400 block of Douglas Street to a report of a motor-vehicle crash, said Bryce Janssen, a departmental spokesperson.

When officers arrived, they learned Gabriela Puente, 31, and a man had gotten into an altercation in the home, and she then got into a mid-size SUV and continued to drive it into the side of the house with the man standing in the yard, Janssen said.

Then, Janssen said, she allegedly back up again and drove at the house “at least one more time.”

Officers arrested her on charges of aggravated assault with a motor vehicle and domestic battery and took her to the McLean County Jail, where she remained Tuesday afternoon, Janssen said.

It wasn’t immediately clear if she had been formally charged in court. There were no cases under her name in the county’s online records.

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