Two attacks on Aurora cops in one day

It was a bad day to be a police officer in Aurora -- and not a particularly good one for two of the city's residents.

Two people were charged Thursday with aggravated battery to a police officer in two separate incidents that left four officers with minor injuries within a seven-hour span, authorities said Friday.

Just before noon on Thursday, police responded to a disturbance on the 500 block of Linda Court where authorities said Elishea Langston, 19, was arguing with her apartment manager.

Police spokesman Dan Ferrelli said Langston, of the 2100 block of Best Place, was upset about being evicted.

"The young lady had been served with a 10-day notice to vacate, and she took exception to that," Ferrelli said. "The manager repeatedly told her to leave, but she wouldn't, so he called us. Then she began arguing with the officers and she got physical."

Both officers at the scene suffered "minor cuts and scrapes" but did not require medical attention, Ferrelli said. Langston was charged with aggravated battery to a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

Seven hours later, two other officers suffered minor injuries when they were attacked inside the Aurora police headquarters, authorities said.

Ferrelli said Michael Bielarczyk, 52, of the 2900 block of Worchester Lane, entered the department at 6:40 p.m. claiming to have information he thought police would find valuable.

"(Bielarczyk) came in acting very irrationally and began arguing with police personnel but claiming to have this information," Ferrelli said. "So the desk attendant got a detective to come down and talk to him.

"As soon as (Bielarczyk) saw the detective, he just charged him and began attacking him and the attendant."

Ferrelli said Bielarczyk was charged with two counts of aggravated battery to a police officer.

Police said they usually encounter three or four combative people a month, but rarely twice in one day.

"That is unusual," Ferrelli said. "Quite frankly, people are going to fight with police, especially in a town this size, and it demonstrates the length of how far some of these people will go.

"They physically engage the police and then officers get hurt."