Wednesday, February 27, 2013
The last of four charged with shooting a man and woman after tying them up in a robbery took a 90-year sentence.
Lauren Vasilakis stared at the man who shot her and remembered what he said before pulling the trigger. "You told me you'd walk out there and never think about me again, Vasilakis told 20-year-old Matthew Edwards. "I promise, you'll remember me the rest of your life," Vasilakis said. The rest of Edwards' life will be spent in prison, unless he manages to reach the age of 101. Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak sentenced the Joliet man to 90 years in the Department of Corrections for murder and attempted murder. Edwards was found guilty of the charges in December. Edwards shot both Vasilakis, 23 and Joshua Terdic in July 2009. He broke into Terdic's apartment and put a bullet in the Channahon man's head. Terdic, who was 21 at the time, died 10 days …
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Cmdr. Rich Demick said watching two men put stolen license plates on their car allowed officers to arrest them and obtain confessions to other crimes.
A little surveillance work paid off in spades Monday night when police were able to bust two Joliet men on robbery, burglary and stolen property charges. Brian D. Pickering, 28, of 723 John St., and Christopher A. Schmidt, 30, of 418 O'Neil St., were already suspects in a Dec. 22 robbery of an 86-year-old woman when Joliet police officers Ed Johnson and Sherrie Blackburn were assigned to watch their activities Monday night. Within minutes, they witnessed the pair putting stolen license plates on their car while it was parked in the 700 block of John Street, Cmdr. Rich Demick said Tuesday. After following the men for about 40 minutes, the officers stopped them at Raynor and Buell avenues and arrested Schmidt on a charge of unlawful …
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Three Joliet men plotting to rob drugs from a stash house were swept up in a federal sting, officials said.
Three Joliet men on their way to rob cocaine from a stash house instead landed in the federal lockup, officials said. Nieko "Yogi" Hadley, 20, of 811 Gage St., Justin "Fatman" Davila, 23, of 565 Elwood Ave., and Davila's brother Jason Davila, 21, of the same Elwood Avenue address, all were charged with conspiring to intent with the intent to distribute cocaine. The younger Davila does not have a funny nickname, according to the feds. The three men were arrested Monday night as they were traveling north from Joliet to rob cocaine from a stash house, according to a criminal complaint filed against them. They got not farther than Romeoville, the complaint said. Hadley and the Davilas were set up by a snitch, according to the complaint. They …
Monday, June 11, 2012
Seven young men waiting outside the closed Westfield Louis Joliet Mall to buy the new Air Yeezy 2 were robbed Saturday morning.
The newest Nike basketball shoe everybody's got to have ended up costing seven young men their cash, wallets and cell phones. The young men—a 20-year-old and some 16 and 17-year-olds—formed up outside the closed Westfield Louis Joliet mall near the entrance to T.G.I. Friday's at about 1 a.m., police said. The group passed the time together, sitting in lawn chairs and waiting for the mall to open so they could be the brand new Air Yeezy 2, the latest Nike gotta-have. The shoe was just released Saturday morning at a retail price of $245. Another group of three men arrived about 2 a.m. and stayed apart from the first group. After about an hour, the three outsider pulled the hoods of their sweat shirts over their heads and yanked the draw …
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Two Romeoville men were arrested Tuesday night after police said they lured a pizza driver to a vacant home and beat him with a rubber hammer.
Two Romeoville men are in jail Wednesday after calling in a phony pizza order, then assaulting the delivery driver and stealing his cell phone and cash, police said. William C. Whitford, 18, of the 500 block of Maggie, and Allen Freeman Jr., 20, of the 1200 block of Sante Fe, face aggravated robbery charges. Police said the men called in an order for two pizzas to the Rosati’s Pizza restaurant in Bolingbrook, giving the address of a vacant foreclosed home in Romeoville. The men then laid in wait for the driver, Assistant Police Chief Steven Lucchesi said. After arriving at the home in the 500 block of Frieh, the delivery man knocked on the door but received no answer. Lucchesi said the bandits struck as he walked back to his car. “They set…
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Firefighters who arrived to investigate a trouble alarm nearly had a run-in with the thieves, who returned to finish the job minutes later.
Romeoville firefighters stumbled across a burglary in progress without even realizing it early Wednesday. Assistant Police Chief Steven Lucchesi said two men were caught on surveillance video robbing the Citgo gas station, 1100 N. Independence Boulevard, shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday. The thieves, whose faces were obscured, cut a hole in the ceiling and cut the alarm lines to the building, triggering a “trouble alarm” that alerted the fire department that something was amiss. The two men can be seen on video exiting the store just before firefighters arrived, Lucchesi said, but they didn’t stay gone for long. After checking the alarms and resecuring the front door, the fire crew left the site, moments before the two men returned at 1:42 a…
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