St. Charles woman who caused police standoff completes sentence

A 49-year-old St. Charles woman completed her sentence and was released from jail Monday after pleading guilty to causing a police standoff in early September.

Anne M. Tannenbaum, of the 1700 block of Cumberland Gree Drive, recently pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced to 60 days in the Kane County jail with the option of having that time halved for good behavior.

She’d been in jail since mid-September after her release from the hospital.

On Sept. 2, St. Charles police were called to the 1700 block of Cumberland Drive for a possible suicidal subject in an apartment.

Officers interviewed a man outside the apartment, who said his wife had locked herself in an upstairs bedroom, was cutting herself, refused to come out and had an “inoperable” shotgun.

Police shot pepper balls into the apartment, and she eventually came out holding the gun.

Police Tasered her after she again refused to drop the weapon, police said. Tannenbaum was taken to Delnor Hospital in Geneva for treatment and police later discovered the shotgun was not loaded and equipped with a trigger lock.

Court records showed as part of her plea, Tannenbaum was fined $1,050, ordered not to have contact with her husband and put on supervision for two years.

Prosecutors also dropped the misdemeanor charge of possession of a firearm without a firearm owner’s identification card.

The aggravated assault charge carried a top sentence of three years in prison, but probation also was an option.