Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Antwan Jones was the last of the four men, including two from Lisle, to be sentenced in the 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, Jones, along with three others, robbed the 7-Eleven, 4651 Old Tavern Road, according to the Lisle Police Department. 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 …
Monday, December 10, 2012
Patch covers happenings in major court cases, including a former Wheaton man's charges of hiring a fellow inmate to kill two public officials and two others and a Naperville man's sexual exploitation trial.
Wheaton: A judge recently ruled that DuPage prosecutors used an improper tactic to bring a murder-for-hire suspect in for questioning. However, Judge George Bakalis decided the information obtained in the interview, and ultimately the charges filed against Gordon Vanderark, would have been no different if the tactic had not been used, records show. Vanderark is charged with trying to hire a fellow prison inmate to kill a DuPage County Judge and assistant state's attorney tied to a previous felony conviction that landed Vanderark in prison. Prosecutors used a confidential source to learn about Vanderark's plan and set up a "ruse" hearing on an unrelated issue to have Vanderark brought back from the Centralia Correctional Center. Once in …
Monday, July 23, 2012
Four men, including two from Lisle, were charged with robbery and mob action after police said they robbed the Old Tavern Road 7-Eleven and assaulted the clerk on duty.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Four men, including two from Lisle, were charged with robbery and mob action after police said they robbed the Old Tavern Road 7-Eleven and assaulted the clerk on duty.
Four men took miscellaneous items from a convenience store on Old Tavern Road early Thursday morning, according to a news release from the Lisle Police Department. An employee was also physically assaulted. The individuals robbed 7-Eleven, 4651 Old Tavern Rd., around 2:16 a.m., according to the report. An employee who was assaulted during the incident was transferred to Edward Hospital for treatment. No weapons were used, according to the report. Members of the Lisle Police Department and DuPage County State's Attorney's Office took the men into custody at 10:30 p.m. Thursday after a brief investigation. Deshaun Wilson, 17, and Antonio M. Finley, 21, of Lisle, Steven V. Gayden, 17, of Aurora, and Antwan Jones Jr., 18, of Chicago, are …
Friday, March 16, 2012
Tyris Robinson remains held in DuPage County Jail on $300,000 bail.
A 28-year-old Lisle man has been indicted on charges he pushed a physically handicapped 7-Eleven clerk and stole beer from a convenience store in February. Tyris Robinson remains held in DuPage County Jail on $300,000 bail. On Tuesday, a grand jury indicted him on multiple counts that include aggravated battery, robbery, retail theft, burglary and attempted aggravated robbery. According to the indictment, Robinson entered the 7-Eleven store on Ogden Avenue and demanded money from the clerk while claiming to have a gun. Robinson had placed his hand in his pocket and pointed it as if it were a gun. Robinson then pushed the male clerk, whose disability was not specified, and took several cans of beer. Robinson also has a pending misdemeanor …
Tom Koz
2:41 am on Thursday, January 17, 2013
TOO Bad the "man just trying to make a living" wasn't armed, more ›