Crime & Safety

Four Women Arrested in Downtown St. Charles Brawl

An Elgin mom, her daughter and two women from Yorkville and Aurora are cited after "large rugby-like scrum" erupts on Cedar Street.

St. Charles police cited four women from other towns early Saturday morning, Dec. 21, 2013 after a fight broke out near 4th and Cedar streets.


According to the police report, Tyler R. Limonez, 21, of the 00-99 block of Lakeview Drive, Yorkville; Allison Gatske, 22, of the 500 block of Meyer Court, Aurora; Amanda K. Lathrop, 21, of the 400 block of Orange Street, Elgin; and Constance J. Quisenberry, 41, also of the 400 block of Orange Street, Elgin; each were charged with public fighting.


Two officers on foot patrol were informed by a pedestrian of an altercation on Cedar Street, just east of 4th Street, where they found the four women engaged in a physical altercation. Police said they tried to separate the women but eventually had to force them apart.

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The report states all four women were involved in pushing, punching, grappling and pulling each others’ clothes and hair. Several had faces scratched or slightly bloodied noses but none requested medical attention, the report states.


One officer described the brawl as a “large rugby-like scrum.”

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According to the report, Lathrop said she and her mother, Quisenberry, were walking from a bar when her mother slipped on some ice and fell, and then suddenly the other two women were on top of them.


Gatske and Limonez, however, told police they saw Lathrop fall and started laughing, and Lathrop became upset and charged them.


A witness said he didn’t see what started the fight but stepped in to try to break it up before police arrived.


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