Two Men Arrested in Car Burglaries

arrested two men early Monday in connection with several late-night car burglaries.

Nineteen-year-olds Luis Robledo, of the 200 block of Zinnia Drive, and Jose Valencia, of the 300 block of Homer Avenue, were being held Monday at the Will County jail on burglary charges following their early morning arrest.

Assistant Chief Steven Lucchesi said the two men are accused of burglarizing four unlocked cars parked in the 300 block of Hemlock Avenue on Sunday night.

At around 11:30 p.m., police received a call from a resident who reported spotting two men near her vehicle, before discovering that the car had been burglarized.

“We subsequently learned of three more burglaries that had recently taken place” on the same block, Lucchesi said.

Officers who responded to the call located the two men a street over from the site of the burglaries, police said.

Lucchesi said police recovered CDs, a wallet and credit cards, a speaker and loose change that had been stolen from the unlocked cars.

Both men are scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.