After now-former Elmwood Park Fire Chief Michael Terzo allegedly tried locking a 24-year-old male employee of a local bar in a walk-in cooler and slugged him during an alcohol-filled late-night incident in the western suburb in August, public records show the politically connected Terzo explained away his actions.

“The kid was being cocky.”

Terzo, 55, cast a humble appearance recently at the Maywood Courthouse for a hearing on the criminal charges lodged against him after the Aug. 10 incident at the Tiny Tap, 7648 W. North Ave. The incident sent the younger man, who the Chicago Sun-Times isn’t identifying, to the hospital.

At the Friday hearing, officials revealed there had been a superseding indictment brought against him — upgraded charges that now have him facing two felonies: unlawf

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