Burglar beaten by frying pan-wielding homeowner is heading to prison – CWB Chicago

The burglar who went viral final 12 months after being pursued by a frying pan-wielding house owner in Logan Sq. is heading to jail after pleading responsible on Friday, courtroom information present.

Home-owner Jason Williams known as police round 3:25 p.m. on that June afternoon after receiving an alarm notification and seeing a video feed of a person on his property, in response to police stories. Williams rushed dwelling, arriving earlier than officers and even earlier than the intruder left.

When he entered his ransacked home, Williams encountered 32-year-old Bradley Willenborg coming down the steps from the second flooring, a CPD report stated. Williams grabbed a frying pan from his kitchen to defend himself. What occurred subsequent, captured on his dwelling safety digicam, turned web gold. Watch:

The Frying Pan story is uniquely charming.

Two days in the past a Chicago man was blissfully posting on Twitter a few “area milk” pop up store. His subsequent tweet was jaw-dropping.

He had simply efficiently defended his dwelling from a burglar with a frying pan. pic.twitter.com/lfECGvVvG7

— Starcasm (@starcasm) June 23, 2024

The footage confirmed Willenborg leaping from the entrance porch to the underside of the steps as Williams pursued him with the frying pan raised overhead. The 2 briefly disappeared down the facet of the home earlier than Willenborg bolted again towards the entrance gate, clutching the again of his head to defend himself from extra blows.

As quickly as Willenborg fled out the gate, a Chicago police officer bumped into body. Officers arrested Willenborg moments later.

Whereas present process an analysis at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Middle, Willenborg spat on a feminine nurse, hanging her face and physique, officers stated. Prosecutors added an aggravated battery cost on high of the housebreaking case.

Willenborg, now a 14-time convicted felon with felony information in six Illinois counties, had been launched on parole simply three months earlier than the break-in after serving time for housebreaking, forgery, theft, and stolen motorized vehicle fees.

On Friday, he pleaded responsible to residential housebreaking and aggravated battery of a medical employee. Choose Aleksandra Gillespie sentenced him to eight years in jail. That sentence will likely be decreased by 50% with good conduct.

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