A Chicago man has been sentenced to 17 years in state prison after pleading guilty to armed robbery and home invasion and burglary in June.
Anthony D. Sheppard, 47, was one of two men charged with robbing at gunpoint an elderly couple in their garage in the 200 block of Bloomingbank Road on Dec. 17, 2006. The two then led police on a chase that ended when the car the two men were driving crashed into a viaduct at the intersection of Ogden and Burlington avenues in LaGrange. Sheppard was arrested about 200 feet from the crash.
Sheppard previously served a 13-year sentence after being convicted of five counts of armed robbery in 1988. In April 1998, he was again sentenced to 13 years for robbery and forgery.
Sheppard’s alleged co-offender, Thaddeus Brooks, 46, was arrested the next day at his Westmont home.
Brooks is representing himself in the case against him. He appeared before Judge Carol Kipperman on Monday at the Maybrook Courthouse in Maywood. He requested court transcripts so that he can file a motion citing the speedy trial act. Kipperman indicated that his motion would likely fail since court dates had been agreed to by both parties.
His next court date will be Aug. 19.
Burglary
A resident of the 4200 block of Blanchan Avenue, Brookfield, reported to police that between 11 p.m. on July 1 and 6:15 a.m. on July 2, someone entered his locked 1997 Oldsmobile Bravada and removed a 300-watt Baja amplifier and a 10-inch subwoofer from the rear cargo area.
The owner of the vehicle told police that the offender may have gained entry through a back window, which was left partially open. The items were valued at $150.
Brookfield reported that during the overnight hours of July 1-2, someone broke into a 2003 Saturn L200 parked in the 9500 block of Congress Park Avenue and removed a portable global positioning system from a nylon lunch bag on the rear floor of the vehicle. The GPS unit was valued at $200. The vehicle was left unlocked, according to the report.
Sometime between 4:30 p.m. on July 3 and 2 p.m. on July 6, someone entered a 2003 Chevy van parked behind the garage of a home in the 4000 block of Raymond Avenue, Brookfield, and removed an air compressor, two pneumatic nail guns, a reciprocating saw and a cordless drill (total value $800).
Violating order of protection
Cicero resident Jaime Garcia, 37, is being held without bond pending a court date yesterday for allegedly violating an order of protection issued by a Cook County Circuit Court judge on July 3.
A Riverside police officer arrested Garcia just before 11:15 p.m. on July 6 for driving past the home of his ex-girlfriend who lives in the 300 block of East Burlington Street.
The arrest was Garcia’s third in Riverside since June 27. Just before midnight on June 26, Garcia’s ex-girlfriend called police, reporting that he was outside her home.
Though he left before police arrived, Garcia reportedly called the woman while police were on the scene. Police picked up Garcia at 2 a.m. on June 27 near the woman’s home and charged him with disorderly conduct and criminal trespass.
On June 29, Riverside police charged Garcia with telephone harassment after which the order of protection was issued.
Felony DUI
Riverside police charged Maria DeJesus Correa, of Chicago, with a felony count of driving under the influence after she reportedly drove her Chevy Malibu into a flower bed at the corner of Woodside Road and Park Place and attempted to flee at 4:20 a.m. on July 4.
According to police, the car barreled into the flower bed, which was bordered by railroad ties, and knocked over a gas lamp. Police found Correa in her car, which was damaged and leaking transmission fluid, at Kimbark Road and Park Place.
Asked if she knew where she was, Correa reportedly told police she thought she was near Pulaski Road in Chicago.
After allegedly failing field sobriety tests, police charged her with DUI. The charge was upgraded to a felony since she was also driving on a suspended license and the vehicle was uninsured.
Stolen items recovered
On July 2, the Riverside Police Department recovered $1,800 in musical equipment stolen from a storage locker in an apartment building in the 3400 block of Harlem Avenue in Riverside in January.
A total of six items were recovered at a business on Roosevelt Road in Berwyn, according to police, who stated that the business purchased the equipment just a day after being reported stolen in Riverside.
These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Riverside, North Riverside and Brookfield police departments from June 17 through July 6 and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Unless otherwise indicated, anybody named in these reports has only been charged with a crime. The cases have not been adjudicated.
-compiled by Bob Uphues