Elgin man charged with fighting cops, throwing things at child

An Elgin man is accused of getting into a scuffle with two police officers Monday and hitting one of them in the leg with a collapsible baton, police said.

Laderrick D. English, 21, of the 700 block of Dundee Avenue, was charged with aggravated battery to a police officer, aggravated resisting a police officer, domestic battery, interfering with the reporting of domestic battery and endangering a child's life, police said.

Police responded to English's house at 5:50 p.m. on reports that he pushed a woman he knows there several times and kept her from calling 911 for help.

Charging documents also said English endangered his child's life by flipping over furniture and throwing items around the room that were aimed at the woman, but landed within a foot of the infant, police said.

When police arrived at the house, English was walking out of the front door of the apartment and pushed one of the officers into a wall, authorities said.

As police brought him to the ground and tried to arrest him, English grabbed that officer's baton and hit a second officer on the back of the leg, said police spokeswoman Sue Olafson.

The officer was not seriously hurt and returned to the job Tuesday, Olafson said.

English's bail was set at $25,000 and he is due in court Dec. 8 at the Kane County Judicial Center.

Aggravated battery to a police officer is a Class 2 felony that, upon a guilty verdict, carries a sentence of between three and seven years in prison.