Chicago Man Gets 6 Years for His Role in Lisle 7-Eleven Robbery

A Chicago man will spend several years behind bars for his role in the 2012 robbery of a Lisle 7-Eleven.

Antwan Jones, 18, 11406 S. Throop St., was sentenced Tuesday to six years in the Illinois Department of Corrections by Judge Blanche Hill Fawell, according to a press release from the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office.

At about 2:15 a.m. on July 19, 2012, . An employee who was assaulted during the incident was transferred to Edward Hospital for treatment. No weapons were used, police said.

An investigation into the robbery and assault conducted by the Lisle Police Department and the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office led to Jones and three other men: Steven Gayden, 18, of Aurora; and Deshaun Wilson, 17, and Antonio Finley, 21, both of Lisle. All four men were taken into custody that evening.

“In the early morning hours of July 19, 2012, these four men brazenly robbed a Lisle 7-Eleven with Mr. Jones brutally beating a man just trying to make an honest living,” DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin said in a statement. “Thanks to the fine work of the Lisle Police Department, Mr. Jones and his accomplices were apprehended and will all spend a significant amount of time behind bars for their actions. I would like to thank the Lisle Police Department for their work on this case as well as Assistant State’s Attorney Debora Brewer for her efforts in putting these dangerous men behind bars where they belong.”

On Dec. 5, 2012, Jones entered a plea of guilty to one count of robbery, a Class 2 Felony.

Jones was the last of the men to be sentenced in the robbery. For their roles in the robbery the men received the following sentences: Gayden, four years in the IDOC; Wilson, five years in the IDOC and Finley, six years in the IDOC, the statement said.

All the men will be required to serve 85 percent of their sentence before being eligible for parole, officials said.