Father jailed 5 days for softball tirade
Associated Press
3:30 AM CST, January 7, 2009
WHEATON, Ill. - A Hanover Park man has been sentenced to five days in jail for threatening a youth softball umpire and spitting on a deputy sheriff.
DuPage County prosecutor Louisa Nuckolls told a court Tuesday that Michael Beck was attending his daughter's softball game July 13 in a park near Downers Grove when he "became angry with the calls and responded with gestures and obscenities."
Nuckolls said police was called after Beck threatened the umpire with physical harm. Beck refused to cooperate with the officer and spit on the man.
Beck pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of battery and assault. Beck had been charged with felony aggravated battery and faced up to 7 years in prison but accepted a plea agreement with a lesser sentence and apologized to Judge Peter Dockery
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