Suspect denies Halloween trespassing

A West Chicago man accused of entering a St. Charles family's apartment uninvited on Halloween denied Friday he stepped foot inside the door.

"I don't understand the charges," Francisco Felix-Moreno, 26, told Kane County Judge James C. Hallock at his first court appearance since bond call. "I didn't go into any house. I just knocked."

Hallock appointed a public defender to represent Felix-Moreno, who faces felony charges of criminal trespass to a residence, resisting police and aggravated battery to a police officer.

About 6 p.m. Oct. 31, police say, Felix-Moreno wandered into an apartment on the 1600 block of Indiana Street and proceeded to walk around without speaking as a family of three adults and two children sat in the living room.

Police say one of the adults took a beer from Felix-Moreno's hand and lured him outside. When police tried to talk to him nearby a short time later, they said, he grabbed an officer by the throat and choked him before being wrestled to the ground.

The defendant, still wearing a bandage over his nose from the altercation, appeared confused as he spoke through an interpreter in court Friday, at one point saying, "I don't even know what I was doing."

Felix-Moreno, of the 1200 block of Kings Circle, remained in the county jail Friday with bond set at $50,000. Hallock said he faces up to seven years in prison if convicted of the most serious charge.

His next court date is Dec. 1.