A Kendall County Jail inmate, behind bars on attempted murder charges, is accused of ambushing a sheriff’s deputy by throwing feces at him when officers opened his cell door.
Taylor James Cano, 26, of the 300 block of South Fordham Avenue, Aurora, was charged with aggravated battery to a police officer, a class 2 felony, and remains in the jail.
Two deputies making rounds around the cells at 6 p.m. Wednesday were attempting to speak with Cano in his cell before the altercation started, Kendall County Sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Mike Mrozek said. When the deputies opened the cell door, Cano allegedly threw the feces, which landed on one of the deputies, Mrozek said.
“I guess it was a surprise to the deputy,” Mrozek said. “He wasn’t expecting that to happen when the cell door opened.”
Cano is then accused of charging the deputies, punching the officer hit by the feces three to four times with a closed fist, Mrozek said.
Mrozek did not elaborate on how Cano was subdued, but said deputies did not use force on the inmate. A total of three deputies responded to the fight, he said. The deputies “were able to use their training to get him to stop,” Mrozek said.
The deputy was treated and released from a local hospital following the incident, Mrozek said.
The new charge is not the first Cano has picked up since he was jailed on attempted murder charges last September.
In February, Cano was accused of creating a “stabbing instrument” from a toothbrush in the jail and charged with unlawful possession of a weapon in the custody of a department of corrections. Corrections deputies found the “sharp-edged” weapon after they received information from another inmate and searched Cano’s cell, Mrozek told the Beacon-News at the time.
In August 2015, Oswego police shot Cano, then 25, on Ashlawn Avenue near Lombardy Lane after he called 911 and said he was going to shoot himself in the street, along with anyone who came to help, Oswego police said.
After police arrived, Cano raised a gun toward them, and was commanded to drop the weapon, according to police. He didn’t, and two officers fired, striking Cano once, police said. Illinois State Police conducted an independent investigation into the shooting.
Last year, Kendall County State’s Attorney Eric Weis announced that no criminal charges would be filed against the two Oswego police officers who fired their weapons during the August confrontation. Weis called the officers’ actions warranted, justified and necessary to prevent what may have transpired.
For that incident, Cano was charged with attempted first-degree murder, unlawful use or possession of a weapon by a felon, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and aggravated discharge of a firearm.
He is next scheduled to appear in court at 9 a.m. Nov. 30 in Room 113 at the Kendall County Courthouse in Yorkville.
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