Wednesday, May 22, 2013
One man’s crutches thrown aside in fracas that broke out as another man searched for “Vito,” according to police.
Police cited four people with fighting, and one also was cited with disorderly conduct-public drunkenness, after officers were called at 1:36 a.m. Sunday, May 19, 2013, to a fight at 2nd and West Main Streets. Joseph M. Rabiola, 27, of the 300 block of Burlington Road, Elgin, was cited with disorderly conduct, and with fighting. Also cited with fighting were Kyle E. Cullan, 23, of the 1300 block of North Field Court, Harvard; Michelle L. Cullan, 30, of the 7000 block of Cherry Valley Boulevard, Cherry Valley; and Victoria Anderson, 24, of the 6N100 block of Prairie Valley Drive, St. Charles. According to the report, Kyle Cullan was on crutches and walking with his sister along Main Street when they encountered Rabiola and Anderson, and …
Saturday, May 18, 2013
A Bartlett woman was charged Tuesday after police investigated an April 10 theft that led to 90 mph flight.
A Bartlett woman gave her driver’s license number to a clerk when redeeming a store credit coupon during an April 10 shoplifting theft that sparked a wild, high-speed escape and led to her arrest Tuesday, May 14, 2013 by St. Charles police. Tarsha T. Davis, 40, of the 100 block of Elizabeth Court, Bartlett, was charged at 7:09 p.m. at the St. Charles Police Department, 211 N. Riverside Drive, with retail theft, aggravated fleeing and eluding, three counts of disobeying traffic-control signals, two counts of improper lane use, improper passing on the right, speeding more that 40 mph over the limit, fleeing and eluding police, and reckless driving. She was released on $3,000 cash bond pending a May 31 court appearance in Room 211 of the Kane…
Monday, May 13, 2013
Jogger on bike path on St. Charles’ South Side was accosted Friday afternoon, May 10, police said.
An unspecified reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of a man who reportedly battered a woman jogging along a bike path in St. Charles. Police said the incident was reported at 9:57 a.m. Friday, May 10, 2013, after the 29-year-old victim reported that a man grabbed her buttock while she was running in the 1100 block of Geneva Road. The woman told police she was running north when the man, walking in the opposite direction, reached out and grabbed her. The woman told police she immediately stopped to confront the man, who ran off into the wooded area near the Park Shore Apartments. Officers from the St. Charles and Geneva police departments searched the surrounding area for the offender to no avail. The victim …
Friday, May 10, 2013
Some residents on Timbers Trail have been finding stinky deposits on their patios. While one thought it might be a person, police believe it’s an animal. Here’s some tips on dealing with unwanted wildlife issues at home.
Warning: This story may inspire scatological puns and other coarse humor. A resident told police he found a deposit of fecal matter on the deck near the patio door of his home on Monday evening and suspected it might have been left by one of the other people living in his building. A police officer sent to investigate the unwanted “gift,” however, discovered other neighbors had encountered similar problems and suspects it might have been left by an animal. The 58-year-old resident of the 200 block of Timbers Trail reported his find at 6 p.m. Monday, May 6, 2013, and he told police this was the sixth time it’s happened in six weeks on the deck near the patio door of his home. He said it was deposited between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. and that he …
Friday, May 3, 2013
Police say bar patron exposed his butt to the victim before spitting upon him.
A St. Charles man is free on bond after he was charged in an April 26 incident in which he “mooned” a patron at a downtown bar and then spat upon him, police said. Michael J. Stubits, 24, of the 26W700 block of Lindsey Avenue, was charged at 1:40 a.m. April 26, 2013, with battery — physical contact of an insulting/provoking nature, a Class A misdemeanor, St. Charles police said. He posted $150 cash bond and was released pending a June 6, 2013 court appearance. Police were called at 1:24 a.m. to Pub 222, 222 W. Main St., on a report of a disturbance. Police said the interviewed witnesses, the victim and Stubits, and determined that Stubits approached the 21-year-old male victim who was sitting on the front steps of the bar. Police said …
Thursday, May 2, 2013
St. Charles police took two men into custody during the investigation, but neither wanted to press charges.
Neither of two men involved in an altercation that led to a stabbing early Tuesday were willing to sign a complaint, so no charges have been filed in what St. Charles police described Wednesday as an “unusual case.” Police said Wednesday that in most cases, a victim is willing to sign a complaint in a stabbing, but neither man suffered serious, life-threatening wounds. The man who was stabbed was treated at Delnor Hospital in Geneva and then was released. Officers responded at 1:07 a.m. Tuesday to a report of a stabbing at 200 N. 15th St., where witnesses told them the two men involved had left on foot. The stabbing occurred in a common hallway of the apartment building, police said. Witnesses told officers the offender and the victim knew…
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Work crew replacing lights for a townhome association had left 15 boxes unattended while they began work in another area of a St. Charles neighborhood.
Thieves made off with 15 sealed boxes containing 90 patio lights awaiting installation on townhomes in the 3000 block of Heritage Street. The combined value of the lights was $8,640, according to the police report. The theft was reported at 11:11 a.m. Friday, April 26, 2013, by an employee of Frog Painting and Carpentry, 905 Banbury Court, Schaumburg, which had been hired by a townhome association to replace patio lights on homes in the neighborhood. The work crew arrived and set out the boxes in two locations — one in the parkway on the 3000 block of Heritage Street, and another group of boxes on the far south end of the neighborhood of townhomes, where the crew began working. A company spokesman told police that at one point, two men in …
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Two men face charges for parking-lot beating in St. Charles.
An Elburn man and a St. Charles man face aggravated assault and mob action charges after a confrontation that began in a fast-food drive-through lane ended with a beating in a restaurant parking lot across the street. Patrick E. Hogan, 21, 1800 Spring Valley Drive, Elburn, and William L. Rawson, 21, of 1502 Avalon Court, are each charged with aggravated battery and mob action charges in relation to the April 17, 2013, incident, St. Charles police said. According to police, Hogan and Rawson were involved in a confrontation on the morning of April 17. The incident began in the drive-through lane at McDonald’s, 1915 W. Main St. After the confrontation, one of the two men reportedly kicked the back of the victim’s truck, which was caught on …
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
The man was asked to leave a downtown St. Charles bar after staffers realized he had been banned from local taverns.
A St. Charles man who already had been banned from most downtown St. Charles taverns has been cited with assault after he reportedly threatened a bar manager who asked him to leave the establishment early Saturday, according to police reports. Police said an assault citation was issued against Ryan R. Fitzsimmons, 29, of the 41W000-099 block of Empire Road, who had defied a St. Charles Tavern Association ban when he entered Alley 64, 212 W. Main St., and became belligerent with the staff there when he was asked to leave. Police were called to the tavern at 12:37 a.m. Saturday, April 20, 2013, by one of the owners, who told the officer Fitzsimmons is on the association’s “banned list” of patrons who have been barred from downtown bars. The …
Friday, April 5, 2013
One-inch gas line broken by contractor disrupted morning traffic on East Main Street/Route 64 in St. Charles.
2:00 p.m. Update: A gas line break along East Main Street/Route 64 brought out St. Charles firefighters and police, crews from Nicor and disrupted traffic through the construction zone Friday morning, but things were back to normal by early afternoon. The initial call to the St. Charles Fire Department went out at 9:12 a.m., and interim Fire Chief Joe Schelstreet said in an email that Nicor crews already were on the scene, working on a break to a 1-inch serving Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St. A contractor had struck the line causing the break. Schelstreet wrote that Nicor representatives asked St. Charles authorities to divert traffic while they shut down the flow of gas and made repairs. “We provided traffic control with a …
Greg S
3:46 pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Yet another example of our fine downtown and the cultured patrons it attracts. At least if we paved it all with urinal cakes (since the drunks feel that any surface in a 3 foot radius is fair game for a slash) the brawlers would have a safer landing when they throw each other to the ground... more ›