Geneva man admits denting cop car with head, spitting blood at officer

A Geneva man with a history of violence toward police is going back to prison, this time for denting a squad car with his head and spitting blood in an officer's face.

Jonathan M. Anderson, 24, of the 700 block of East State Street, was sentenced Thursday to five years and four months in prison in exchange for pleading guilty to aggravated battery to a peace officer and criminal damage to government property.

"You're not wasting any time building a criminal history," Kane County Circuit Judge Thomas E. Mueller told Anderson, who has racked up prior convictions for battering police, obstructing justice and burglary in the last five years.

Assistant State's Attorney Deborah Lang said Anderson was arrested twice this year on charges involving altercations with police.

On Jan. 10, he bashed his head against the hood of a squad car, leaving two dents, as Geneva police detained him in connection with a hit-and-run crash. Less than six months later, on June 1, he spat blood and saliva into the face of an officer responding to a fight at a party on the 500 block of Maves Drive in Batavia. In a negotiated plea Thursday, Anderson agreed to consecutive prison terms of four years and 16 months for the separate offenses. Mueller said the terms are consecutive because Anderson was out on bond when the second offense occurred.

This will be Anderson's third prison stay. Lang said he was sentenced to three years for burglary in 2005, and another three years for obstructing justice in 2007. Anderson did not make a statement in court.