Crime & Safety
19-Year-Old Batavia Woman Charged With Knife Assault in Geneva
The following information was supplied by the Geneva Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
An incident disturbingly similar to the alleged took place April 26 in Geneva, when a Batavia woman drew a knife on a victim and subsequently was charged with aggravated assault.
Geneva police arrested Brittany Maberry, 19, of Batavia, on charges of aggravated assault following an incident at about 3:40 a.m. April 26 in the 200 block of Anderson Boulevard, Geneva police reports said.
Police said Maberry used a deadly weapon in that she knowingly brandished a black Smith & Wesson folding knife with a 3-inch blade at the victim and placed the victim “in reasonable apprehension of battery.”
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Mayberry also was cited for consumption of alcohol by a minor, which carries a $250 fine if paid by the due date.
On Monday in Batavia, police arrested 24-year-old Latoya M. Baines of Batavia on charges that she stabbed and killed Gerald J. Jackson of Chicago. She faces two counts of murder after Jackson was found unresponsive and bleeding heavily at Batavia Apartments early Monday morning, according to . Baines is being held on $750,000 bail, according to Kane County court records.
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