Carbondale Alerts
Carbondale Police Press Release– Home Invasion and Aggravated Battery
NEWS RELEASE
City of Carbondale, Illinois
May 9, 2025
For Immediate Release
CARBONDALE – On May 5, 2025, at 11:24 p.m., City of Carbondale Police Department Officers responded to a residence in the 800 Block of West Mill Street for a report of a stabbing. Officers learned the suspect, Branden Rogers, age 39 of Carbondale, is a known acquaintance of the victim and was at the victim’s residence. Rogers left the residence after being asked to leave, but he returned and tried to force his way back inside. Rodgers stabbed the victim, who was trying to prevent him from re-entering the residence. The victim then struck Rogers until he left. Rogers was arrested for Home Invasion and Aggravated Battery and treated at the emergency room for the non-life-threatening injuries he received from the victim. Rogers was incarcerated in the Jackson County Jail pending a detention hearing. The victim was also treated at the emergency room for non-life-threatening injuries. Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact the police department at the numbers listed below. The investigation is active and ongoing.
Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact the City of Carbondale Police Department at (618) 549-2121. You may also call the Carbondale/SIU Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (618) 549-COPS (2677) or the Murphysboro/Jackson County anonymous tip line at (618) 687-COPS (2677). Anonymous tips may also be made by selecting the “Crime Stoppers” tab on this website’s main page. Please help yourself and your county, its communities, and the university campus by using these numbers if you witness or have any information about a crime. Cash rewards for information that leads to an arrest are also made anonymously. Remember, crime doesn’t pay, but Crime Stoppers does!
The mission of the Carbondale Police Department is to work in partnership with our community to preserve life, protect human rights, protect property and improve quality of life by providing police service to all in a fair, sensitive, and professional manner.