Police beat
Geneva
• Twenty bottles of fragrances valued at $1,094 were stolen at 4 p.m. Nov. 12 from Ulta, 1560 S. Randall Road.
• An outside garbage container was set on fire about 2:25 p.m. Saturday at Western Avenue Elementary School, 1500 Western Ave. Two people supervising an "open gym" session at the school reported they had expelled two boys earlier that afternoon for setting leaves on fire in the gymnasium and in a restroom.
• Lauren E. Paustian, 18, of 1264 Keim Court, was charged with misdemeanor retail theft. She is accused of trying to take six CDs and four DVDs from Best Buy, 1876 S. Randall Road, at 5:15 p.m. Monday. She has a Jan. 15 court date.
Kane County
• A pumpkin was used to knock a mailbox from its post between 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. Nov. 8 on the 1S000 block of Newton Street in Geneva. A profanity was written in black marker on the pumpkin.
• A woman's ring, more than 100 PlayStation games, a wallet, a digital camera with docking station and charger, two bottles of vodka and a wallet containing $35 were reported stolen from an unlocked home between 8 a.m. and 4:22 p.m. Nov. 8 on Carney Lane in the Mill Creek subdivision near Geneva. The items were valued at $6,654.
• Six endorsed checks awaiting postal pickup from a residential mailbox were stolen between 11:30 a.m. Friday and 7:08 p.m. Sunday on the 19N000 block of Woodview Parkway in Hampshire.
• The driver's side of a 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt was scratched between 7:50 and 11:45 a.m. Monday at Central High School, 44W625 Plato Road, Burlington.
• Gina M. Kanner, 38, of 308 Hiscock, Earlville, was taken to Provena Mercy Medical Center after her car crossed the center line and hit a guardrail and a fence on the 45W400 block of Granart Road at 8 a.m. Nov. 14. She told police she passed out.
St. Charles
• A car on the 3700 block of Ohio Avenue was scratched Wednesday. No damage estimate was reported.
• Donald P. Mabins, 39, of 210 S. Seventh Ave., Maywood, was cited Tuesday for failure to give information to police after backing a UPS truck into another vehicle and driving off, police said. Mabins was released on his own recognizance with a Dec. 27 court date. No injuries were reported.