Crime & Safety
St. Charles Man Charged With Showing Handgun During Argument in Geneva
The following information was supplied by the Geneva Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Geneva police arrested Salvador Mendez, 22, of St. Charles on a charge of disorderly conduct after the victim said Mendez displayed a handgun in a verbal altercation around 2:14 a.m. in the 50 block of North River Lane, reports said.
Mendez “displayed what the victim believed to be a handgun after a verbal altercation with the victim,” the complaint said. “The subject displayed the weapon in such a manner to cause the victim to be alarmed and disturbed, concerned for his own safety and the safety of others, while provoking a breach of the peace.”
Mendez has a court date of March 20 at the Kane County Branch Court, 530 S. Randall Road, St. Charles.
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