Men plead guilty to West Loop robbery: one gets 20 years, the other gets 8

Two males accused of robbing a pair at gunpoint within the West Loop have been sentenced to jail, with one going away for 8 years whereas the opposite obtained a 20-year sentence.

Simeon Allen, 25, obtained the longer sentence after pleading responsible to armed theft on Monday. His confederate, Devonta Thompson, 28, pleaded responsible in January. Choose Adrienne Davis sentenced each males.

Shortly after 9 p.m. on October 18, 2023, a person and girl have been strolling again to their parked automobile within the first block of North Inexperienced when Thompson and Allen ran as much as them whereas brandishing firearms, authorities stated.

Each males shouted for the couple to give up their purse, wallets, money, and telephones, and Thompson pushed the male sufferer, 39, towards a automobile, prosecutors stated. The lady, 36, screamed for assist, attracting the eye of somebody in an residence throughout the road.

Prosecutors stated that Thompson and Allen took the couple’s property and ran to a Chrysler 300 ready close by. However one of many victims was in a position to memorize the automobile’s license plate, and Chicago police started monitoring the automobile utilizing CPD’s citywide community of license plate readers.

A CPD helicopter crew positioned the automobile because it traveled via the town, and the air unit crew noticed three folks run from the automobile after it crashed right into a parked automobile within the 100 block of North Hoyne. Patrol officers arrested Thompson and Allen close by.

Prosecutors stated Thompson had the Chrysler’s key and the male theft sufferer’s bank card in his pocket. Thompson’s telephone was allegedly beneath the automobile’s driver’s seat.

Allen had two earlier felony gun convictions on the time of the theft. Thompson was convicted of possessing a stolen motorized vehicle in 2019.