$250,000 bond for Prospect Heights man accused of threatening woman

Bond was set at $250,000 Monday for a 46-year-old Prospect Heights man accused of threatening to kill a Wheeling woman with a butcher knife.

Steven Page, of the 1200 block of South River Road, was charged with armed violence, resisting a police officer and other offenses.

Wheeling police Deputy Chief Bill Benson said Page showed up at the woman's home uninvited and unannounced around 12:24 p.m. Friday. He threatened her with the butcher knife and punched her in the chest, he said. The victim declined medical treatment.

At a hearing Monday in Rolling Meadows, Page interrupted Assistant State's Attorney Caroline Kennedy as she read a police report detailing the incident. He denied its accuracy and repeatedly laughed in disbelief.

Kennedy listed several prior offenses by Page that led Cook County Circuit Court Judge James Etchingham to set such a high bond. Among them are an aggravated unlawful restraint conviction in 2003, for which he received one year probation and a two-year order of protection to stay away from his victim. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison for violating an order of protection and aggravated battery in 2005. And last year, Page pleaded guilty to domestic battery involving bodily harm and received a three-year prison sentence, officials said.

Information on when he was released on the latter prison sentence wasn't immediately available. Page would have gotten credit for time spent in jail on the charge before he was sentenced.

Page's next court appearance is on Sept. 24 in Room 108 at the Rolling Meadows courthouse.