Police beat
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.
• Justin B. Patzer, 23, of 39W150 Campton Hills Drive, was arrested at 6:54 p.m. Monday and charged with felony retail theft after stealing $644.47 in compact discs from Meijer, 855 S. Randall Road, police said. Patzer also was charged with resisting arrest after running from an officer, according to a report. He is scheduled to appear in court Sept. 7.
• Hector Villagomez, 39, of 145A Indiana St., was cited at 3:51 p.m. Tuesday for driving without a valid license after a crash at 14th and Indiana streets, police said.
Kane County
• 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 a fender and the hood.
• A purse containing keys, credit cards and a bank bag with $200 to $300 was taken from a home in the 33W000 block of Roosevelt Road in West Chicago at 3:45 a.m. Tuesday. Someone smashed a glass patio door to enter the home and take the purse off of a nearby table.
• A Batavia resident reported a possible fraud Aug. 28. On Aug. 15 they received an e-mail from someone claiming they were moving from China to an address in the 0N400 block of Old Kirk Road in West Chicago, that they were seeking a nanny, and that they would send $750 for the person to purchase toys here for their children so toys wouldn't have to be moved from China. On Aug. 27 the Batavia resident received $5,000 in travelers checks from this person via regular mail, and an e-mail saying the amount of checks sent was a mistake and that she should cash them and wire the money back. The person cashed them at a bank, but when she went to wire the money, a wire company employee alerted them that it might be a scam. The person took the money back to the bank, and the bank determined the travelers checks were fraudulent.
• Someone painted graffiti in black on a mailbox in the 5N800 block of East Ridgewood Street in St. Charles between 8 p.m. Monday and 7:10 a.m. Tuesday. Damage was estimated at $1,500.
• A teenaged 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.