Tri-Cities police blotter

St. Charles

• Someone removed two signs on the south side of a business on the 400 block of South First Street between Oct. 9 and 12, police said. The signs were still on scene and not damaged. However, the business owners reported the activity as the signs had been bolted into bricks at the property, but were still pushed over. The signs were to inform residents that the parking in the area is for customers only.

• Police found a woman covered in blood on the stairway of a three-story building on the 100 block of North 15th Street Oct. 30. The woman was semiconscious, incoherent and appeared intoxicated, police said, and the woman was transported to Delnor Hospital in Geneva. Evidence at the building showed a significant amount of blood in the entry way, under the mailboxes. A blood trail tracked up the carpeted stairs to the second level. The woman's daughter lives in the building and received a call from her father indicating that the mother had called him and indicated she needed help. That's when the daughter checked outside and found her mother in the stairway and called police. The injured woman told police she had been pushed down some stairs, but would not provide further details and was combative with officers. The woman later changed her story and said she fell. The woman told police she was intoxicated at the time of the incident and blacked out. Police initially classified the incident as an aggravated battery, but cleared the case as the victim refused to cooperate. Police could find no evidence that battery occurred.

• Lourdes Marie Herrera, 21, of the 900 block of Bishop Street in West Chicago, charged Nov. 3 with criminal damage to property, according to a police report. Herrera told police she kicked out the window to an apartment on the 1600 block of Indiana Street after having an argument with her husband because he refused to come home. The estimated cost to replace the window is $250.

• Jesus A. Adame, 25, of the 6N200 block of Catalpa Avenue, was charged Oct. 30 with criminal damage to property, according to a police report. Witnesses at a business on the 0-100 block of First Avenue observed Adame shatter a window at the business by striking it with his right arm and then fleeing the scene. An employee of the business chased Adame until police arrived.

Kane County

• Several undergarments were reported missing or stolen Oct. 26 from a clothes dryer at a residence on the 6N800 block of Old Homestead Road in unincorporated St. Charles, police said.

• A video camera, laptop and iPod were among items reported stolen Tuesday from a home on the 07N100 block of Scott Avenue in unincorporated South Elgin, police said.

Batavia

• Five vehicles were ransacked between 2 and 3 a.m. Thursday in the 900 and 1000 blocks of Woodland Hills Road, police said. Nothing was taken.

• A Garmin GPS device was stolen out of a vehicle in the 900 block of Bluestem Lane, it was reported at 2:22 a.m. Thursday, police said. Another vehicle was also burglarized, but nothing was taken.

Geneva

• Graffiti was spray painted on a south brick wall in the 700 block of West State Street between 6 p.m. Oct. 31 and 1:09 a.m. Sunday, police said.

• Jewelry was stolen out of a glass display case at Antiques on State, 422 W. State St., between 11 a.m. and 4 p. m. Oct. 31. The thief took the wood door off the rear of the case, according to a police report.

• Someone threw a brick through a bedroom window, damaging a vertical blind and closet doors, and broke the passenger-side windows of a Mitsubishi Galant, at 1:06 a.m. Sunday at a house in the 300 block of Jefferson Street, police said.

• Leonel M. Jimenez was charged with driving without a valid driver's license, speeding, and possession of an unlawfully altered driver's license, at 12:08 a.m. Oct. 30 in the 500 block of Randall Road, according to a police report. The license he presented to police had a different name on it and the portion that indicates "ID Card" had been scratched off and replaced with a label with the phrase "driver's license." Jimenez, 30, lives in the 1000 block of Lorlyn Circle, Batavia.

• Collin R. Maynard, 24, of the 1300 block of Fargo Boulevard, was ticketed by police for public intoxication, at 2:03 a.m. Sunday in the 100 block of West State Street, police said. People outside a bar called police to complain, saying that Maynard was belligerent, trying to pick fights with people and wouldn't leave them alone. When police would not allow him to walk home and offered to call a taxi or a friend to take him home, he refused, called the officers names and swore. Police drove him home, issued the ticket, and laid it at his feet because he refused to accept it.