CHICAGO — A Chicago man has been sentenced to 18 years in jail for robbing a Verizon retailer in Bucktown whereas on parole for robbing a T-Cellular location.
Jeffery Brooks, 25, pleaded responsible to 2 counts of armed theft—one for robbing Verizon and the opposite for robbing and pistol-whipping a girl in Rogers Park. Decide Shelley Sutker-Dermer handed him two 18-year sentences to be served concurrently.
Brooks entered the Verizon at 1652 North Milwaukee round 10 a.m. on October 18, 2023. After briefly searching the merchandise, he displayed a BB gun that resembled a Glock handgun and ordered an worker to escort him to the cellphone storage space. Brooks took 14 iPhones and fled the scene.
Brooks ordered an worker to take him to the cellphone stock space. The employee complied, and Brooks put 14 iPhones right into a bag and fled the scene, officers stated.
One of many cellphone packing containers contained a GPS tracker, although, and cops shortly realized it was heading south on the Purple Line. They intercepted the practice at Garfield and stopped Brooks close to the exit as a result of he resembled the robber, in response to his CPD arrest report.
Dispatchers radioed a special description whereas the officers have been talking with him, and so they launched him, in response to the report.
Inside seconds, cops in CPD’s expertise middle introduced that the tracker began transferring once more, heading east on Garfield Boulevard. The officers on the CTA station regarded east on Garfield and noticed Brooks working away. They discovered him hiding behind a bunch of dumpsters with a bag containing 14 iPhones, an empty field, and a “real looking duplicate Glock handgun,” in response to the arrest report.
He was, coincidentally, sporting a hoodie emblazoned with the phrases “BAD HABITS.”
The hoodie message appears applicable, on condition that Brooks was on parole for an virtually equivalent theft from 2020.
In that case, Brooks took precisely 14 iPhones, together with one which was a GPS tracker. CPD’s expertise middle started monitoring the gadget, and patrol officers adopted its sign to search out Brooks sitting within the again seat of an Uber with a bag filled with iPhones, a GPS tracker between his ft, and a practical Glock 17-style BB gun, in response to court docket data.
He was sentenced to 6 years for that holdup, however the state launched him after he served a bit of greater than two years.
The state will reduce his new 18-year sentence right down to 9 years if he behaves in jail. His present launch date is ready for October 12, 2032.
