Mount Prospect man charged in attack on cable TV installer

A Mount Prospect man was arrested on New Year's Eve and charged with battery after police responded to a report that a man, irate about the interruption of his cable television service, had threatened to kill a cable installer.

According to police reports, the installer had been called by a tenant in an apartment building in the 500 block of Ida Court because his cable TV was not working. While on the roof fixing the one cable line, the installer, who worked for Comcast, noticed another cable, and believing it was installed improperly, he removed it.

That line went to the apartment of Robert G. Beeson, 50, who with his family had spent 13 hours without cable TV on Dec. 30 before an AT&T installer got service established late in the evening. When service was cut off by the Comcast installer the next afternoon, Beeson knocked him on his back, grabbed his neck and threatened his life, police reports said. Beeson's court date is Feb. 16.