Woman pleads guilty to serial burglaries, threatening victim who posted surveillance pix online

CHICAGO — A girl has pleaded responsible to committing a string of burglaries from Bucktown to Lakeview and harassing a sufferer who posted surveillance photographs of her on social media. Adelaide Tamayo, 45, was even accused of stealing items from beneath a sufferer’s Christmas tree.

The crimes started on December 4, 2022, when Tamayo entered the vestibule of a apartment constructing within the 800 block of West Armitage and forcibly eliminated a Ring doorbell digicam, prosecutors mentioned.

The Ring digicam’s proprietor posted surveillance photographs of the thief to a neighborhood bulletin board, warning folks to be looking out for the girl. Earlier than lengthy, the sufferer started receiving textual content messages on a telephone quantity she included within the social media submit.

“I’m going to get you, so you must watch your again,” one textual content learn.

“I’m gonna get you, b*tch,” one other mentioned. “The police ain’t going to do sh*t. Straight.”

Prosecutors mentioned Tamayo admitted to sending the threatening textual content messages.

Every week after the Ring digicam incident, Tamayo and an confederate allegedly broke right into a residential constructing within the 1900 block of North Milwaukee. They stole packages from a hallway and compelled their means into storage items to take extra property as video cameras rolled.

Later that day, surveillance video captured the pair stealing packages from a constructing vestibule and a storage space within the 3200 block of North Sheffield. In response to prosecutors, one digicam captured a picture of the thieves’ getaway automotive, which bore a license plate registered to Tamayo.

Tamayo and an confederate allegedly pried their means into an house constructing within the 2700 block of North Pine Grove on December 17, 2022, to steal extra packages.

A number of days later, a Lakeview man opened his bed room door within the 2900 block of North Mildred and found Tamayo and an confederate holding Christmas presents that had been beneath his tree, prosecutors alleged. He confronted the pair as they tried to depart and efficiently knocked the packages from their arms earlier than they fled.

Then, on New 12 months’s Day 2023, Tamayo and an confederate allegedly knocked on an house door within the 3300 block and requested to talk with “Jason.” When the resident mentioned they didn’t know anybody named Jason, Tamayo and her companion went to the residence’s storage, broke right into a automotive, and took a bag, officers mentioned. As soon as once more, a digicam recorded the break-in.

Court docket information present that on December 5, Tamayo pleaded responsible to 6 counts of housebreaking and one rely of telephone harassment earlier than Choose Paul Pavlus. He sentenced her to 4 years for the burglaries and three years for the harassment cost, with the phrases served concurrently. Tamayo was launched on Christmas Eve after spending 13 days in jail. The state’s 50% good habits credit score and the time she spent on an ankle monitor happy the stability of her sentence.

No costs have been ever introduced in opposition to Tamayo’s alleged accomplices.