Crime & Safety
Police: Naperville Man Slashed Neighbor with 'Pirate Sword'
One Naperville resident celebrated the Fourth of July by unleashing his inner buccaneer on a neighbor, cutting him with a three-foot-long sword.
A central-Naperville man has been charged with using a yard-long novelty "pirate sword" to slash open a neighbor's arm during a dispute on the Fourth of July, the Naperville Sun reports.
Naperville Patch police blotter records show that Phillip Kenneth Heade, 51, was arrested at 11:01 p.m. July 4 in the 500 block of Fessler Avenue. He was charged with battery/bodily harm and transported to DuPage County Jail.
According to the Sun, said battery occurred after a conversation between Heade and a neighbor in the neighbor's garage in the Villages of West Glen area (75th and Modaff,) after which Heade left the area.
Then, the Sun quoted Police Sgt. Lou Cammiso saying, Heade “returned five minutes later and entered the victim’s garage with a [three-foot] novelty pirate sword ... ultimately striking the victim (and) cutting his arm."
The neighbor was not seriously injured and called police, soon after which Heade was arrested, the paper said; he is charged with unlawful use of a weapon, battery causing bodily harm and battery, all misdemeanors, and is scheduled to be arraigned on Aug. 2.
Read more at the Naperville Sun website.
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