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Police beat

Carpentersville

• An employee of a fast-food restaurant in Algonquin found a credit card in early August and gave it to her shift supervisor, police said. The shift supervisor then illegally used the credit card in McHenry and Cook counties, police said. Luis R. Joya, 20, of 2113 Teepee Ave., Carpentersville, was charged with one count of forgery, police said. Joya posted $600 bond Wednesday and has a Sept. 14 court date at the Kane County Judicial Center.

• A roadside safety check run by Carpentersville police Friday night at Route 25 and Golfview Lane resulted in three arrests and 41 tickets being issued. The arrests were of people wanted on local warrants. Citations included one for driving under the influence, 12 for no driver's license, 19 for no vehicle insurance, five for driving on a suspended license, three for equipment violations and one for driving on a revoked license. Carpentersville police will conduct their next safety check from 11 p.m. Saturday through 4 a.m. Sunday on Randall Road north of Huntley Road.

• Six members of a Carpentersville family were taken to Sherman Hospital at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday for elevated levels of carbon monoxide. A man in the home on the 7000 block of Lowell Drive who had been working in a crawl space pumping flood water out with a gasoline pump was found unresponsive. Five other people in the home, two adults and three children ages one to six, had elevated carbon monoxide levels. Carbon monoxide levels in the air above 10 parts per million could be dangerous; tests showed the crawl space had 800 parts per million and the rest of the home tested at 280 parts per million. It is believed all family members were treated and released from the hospital.

Elgin

• Police encountered what they said might have been a case of attempted "suicide by cop" at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday at National Street and Times Square Tuesday when they found a man waving a gun and yelling, "Shoot me." As one officer took refuge behind a concrete pillar, the man with the gun approached him, lifted his shirt and yelled at the officer numerous times to shoot him in the chest. When police did recover the gun, it turned out to be an air gun. Robert L. Bacci, 37, homeless of Elgin, was charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing a police officer. Bacci was sent to Sherman Hospital for an examination before his bond hearing. He remains in the Elgin lockup on $350 bond with a Friday court date in Elgin.

• A business on the 0-100 block of North State Street was robbed of $400 from a cash drawer around 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday.

• An Elgin teen was arrested on a drug charge during a traffic stop at 9:15 p.m. Tuesday at College Street and Franklin Boulevard, police said. Adan Canales, 19, of 215 Hill Ave., Elgin, was charged with possession of a controlled substance after half a gram of cocaine was found, police said. Canales was being held in the Kane County jail on $2,000 bond with a Sept. 17 court date at the Kane County Judicial Center.

Kane County

• A teenage runner was injured when she ran into the side door of a moving minivan at 3:55 p.m. Monday on Kenyon Road at Route 25 in Elgin Township. The runner was trying to cross the road and said she did not see or hear the van. Two runners with the injured runner and another witness said the van's driver had slowed down and repeatedly honked the horn. The runner was taken to Sherman Hospital in Elgin.

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