(NAPERVILLE) A convicted
burglar, car thief and would-be forger is free on bond and awaiting trial,
after allegedly assaulting a west suburban Naperville police officer during a
disturbance at the man’s home, the Naperville Sun is reporting.
Nathan M. Pope, 30, has an
arraignment date pending in DuPage County Circuit Court in Wheaton on a
misdemeanor charge of aggravated assault of a peace officer or volunteer,
according to court records.
Pope was arrested about 1:01
p.m. Feb. 22 at his home on the 100 block of East Bailey Road, in an apartment
or condominium complex near Washington Street in the central part of the city.
Sgt. Bill Davis said police
were sent there to investigate and settle a domestic quarrel. During their
investigation, “Pope was uncooperative, and subsequently tried to strike one of
the officers,” Davis wrote in an email.
No injuries were reported
during the incident.
Pope has an extensive criminal
record in DuPage County that dates back more than 15 years. He was sentenced to
60 days in DuPage County Jail after being found guilty of fleeing from the
scene of a May 1998 traffic crash in Lombard, court records showed.
A judge in November 2000
ordered Pope to serve three years in a boot camp-style program run by the
Illinois Department of Corrections. That followed his convictions for stealing
or being in possession of two vehicles stolen earlier that year in Carol Stream
and Glen Ellyn, records indicated.
Pope in January 2005 was
sentenced to three years in prison, for burglaries he committed in April 2003
in Glen Ellyn and Lombard, according to records. That sentence also took into
account an August 2004 burglary attempt in Wheaton, records showed.
He was most recently sentenced
to six months in jail in May 2011, in connection with a November 2010 theft in
Woodridge, records indicated. He served that term concurrent with a six-month
sentence he received on a charge of attempted forgery in Clarendon Hills,
according to records.
