Uninvited Halloween guest charged

Police say a St. Charles family got the spook of a lifetime when an uninvited guest entered their home on Halloween and wouldn't leave until he was lured away with beer.

The "bizarre" incident unfolded around 6 p.m. Saturday at an apartment the 1600 block of Indiana Street, St. Charles police spokesman Paul McCurtain said. The family of three adults and two young children were sitting and talking in their living room when a man later identified as Francisco A. Felix-Moreno, 26, of West Chicago, came in through an unlocked front door and began walking around.

McCurtain said the family didn't know the suspect, and he ignored their commands to leave until one of the residents grabbed a bottle of beer from his hand and lured him outside with it.

Moments later, police tried to confront the man outside the apartment building. Police said he first tried to run in a different apartment, then grabbed an officer by the throat and began choking him.

After the officer fought him off, Felix-Moreno was arrested and charged with criminal trespass to a residence, resisting police and aggravated battery to a police officer, police said.

The officer received an injury to his left thumb, and Felix-Moreno was treated at Delnor Hospital in Geneva for facial injuries sustained in the altercation, McCurtain said.

Felix-Moreno, of the 1200 block of Kings Circle, remained in the Kane County jail Monday on $50,000 bond. His next court date is Nov. 13 in front of Associate Judge James C. Hallock.