A 23-year-old Geneva man accused last year of an attempted Batavia carjacking faces new legal trouble after a recent incident inside the Kane County Jail.
Kane County Sheriff’s Lt. Pat Gengler said Marvell Frye was involved in an altercation with a corrections officer, which prompted prosecutors to charge him with misdemeanor counts of resisting a peace officer and battery, as well as a felony count of aggravated battery to a peace officer. Additional details about what occurred were not immediately available.
Frye has been in the jail on charges of attempted vehicular hijacking, retail theft and assault since his arrest in May. Prosecutors allege he stole a jacket from a Batavia store, used a small wrench to assault a furniture store manager and then accosted a woman in a Randall Road store parking lot in an attempt to take her Chevy Suburban, all in one day.
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While a court date has not been set in the new case, Frye is due back in court before Kane County Judge D.J. Tegeler on Wednesday for what is expected to be a hearing relating to his fitness to stand trial. Frye’s attorney expressed doubt in his client’s ability to assist in his defense, which prompted the judge to order a county psychologist to evaluate Frye to determine whether he is dealing with any mental illness.
Dan Campana is a freelance reporter for The Beacon-News.