Police beat

•A Geneva man was charged with intimidation, aggravated resisting of a peace officer and endangering the life or health of a child at 11:02 p.m. Monday. Police said they were called to his home by an adult woman who said William L. Cordell, 38, of 543 Harrison St., was holding a 3-month-old child related to him and refusing to give the infant back to his mother after the mother said she was leaving the house. Police say Cordell threatened to hurt the baby if police tried to take the baby away, holding his fingers around the baby's neck and threatening to squeeze; that he and the child "would be in heaven together" and that the situation wouldn't be resolved until both were "six feet under." Police used a stun gun on Cordell to get him to release the child. A police officer's arm was burned by the stun gun, and his forehead was scratched.

St. Charles

•Teodulo O. Tiro, 29, of 1726 Howard St., was arrested at 9:04 a.m. Monday and charged with driving on a suspended license, driving without insurance, operation of a vehicle with registration suspended for emissions and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, police said. Tiro was charged after a crash on the 2700 block of East Main Street. No injuries were reported. Tiro was released on $2,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 4.

•Carolina Caballero, 17, of 135 Walnut Drive No. 110, was arrested at 7:48 a.m. Monday and charged with resisting or obstructing police, driving without a valid license and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, police said. Caballero is accused of giving police an incorrect date of birth after being involved in a crash on the 1500 block of East Main Street. No injuries were reported. Caballero was released on $1,000 bond with an Oct. 4 court date.

•Tyler J. Winans, 18, of 265A Thornwood Way, South Elgin, was arrested at 4:55 p.m. Saturday and charged with leaving the scene of an accident, failure to yield at a private drive and driving without insurance, St. Charles police said. He was also charged by Geneva police with criminal damage to state-supported property and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia; they reported finding three glass smoking pipes in the car. Winans is accused of hitting a car on the 2400 block of Bricher Road, then fleeing to Geneva. Police said Winans drove to Geneva North Middle School, where he went over a curb, through one field, over a track and onto a sports field. His car then broke down, and he ran to a salon at 1772 S. Randall Road, where he was arrested a short time later. The accident was witnessed by an off-duty firefighter who followed Winans during the attempted getaway. No one was injured. A 4-by-4-foot section of the track was damaged.

•Jaclyn M. Battistoni, 22, of 4N428 Kingswood Court, Wayne, was arrested at 2:26 p.m. Saturday and charged with felony retail theft after stealing $726 in merchandise from Von Maur, 3810 E. Main St., police said. Battistoni was released on $5,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court Sept. 7.

•Ana L. Orzuna-Aguilar, 18, of 338 Clam St. Apt. 2, Aurora, was arrested at 5:35 p.m. Friday and charged with driving without insurance and driving without a valid license after a property damage crash on the 300 block of South Fifth Avenue, police said. Orzuna-Aguilar was released on $1,000 bond with a Sept. 20 court date.

Kane County

•Don McCue, 63, of 3N812 Ferson Creek Road, St. Charles, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol after an accident at 5:51 p.m. Thursday on Route 31 north of St. Charles. Police say that while driving a 2007 red Chevrolet Corvette, McCue went off the road and hit a utility pole and the front end of a Mitsubishi Eclipse, before coming to rest against a tree. According to the sheriff's report, McCue said he blacked out from low blood sugar before the accident, and had drunk three beers that day.

•A security system keypad and camera and a brick wall sustained $7,000 damage when they were spray-painted between 11:47 p.m. Friday and 8:27 a.m. Monday. The system is at a home in the 36W000 block of Red Gate Road, St. Charles.

•Chelsea L. Bush, 18, of 643 Houston St., Batavia, was charged with aggravated fleeing and attempting to elude police, driving without lights and speeding at 10:27 p.m. Monday on Pine Street in Sugar Grove Township. A sheriff's officer reported seeing her pass cars at 80 mph in a 50 mph zone on Bliss Road, and that when he tried to pull her over, she kept driving, turned onto Denny Road turned off her headlights, then turned onto Pine. While chasing Bush, the officer lost control of his car and hit a grass berm, denting he fender and hood.