A person who thought it was a good suggestion to rob somebody throughout a Fb Market meetup in a Chicago police station car parking zone (after which made the even stranger option to attempt to escape by operating into the police station foyer) has been sentenced to probation.
Phillip Shockley, 24, pleaded responsible to 1 depend of theft in trade for the 24-month time period from Decide Carol Howard. She additionally ordered him to carry out 45 hours of neighborhood service, get his GED, and display a “good religion effort” at sustaining employment.
Shockley’s questionable choices started simply earlier than midday on February 6, when he organized to purchase a $3,000 Audemars Piguet watch from a 19-year-old man by means of Fb Market. The assembly spot? The car parking zone of the Austin (fifteenth) District police station at 5701 West Madison Avenue. Police stations are in style spots for finishing social media offers as a result of the placement ought to scale back the possibility of being robbed.
However prosecutors mentioned Shockley determined to check that concept. As quickly as the vendor confirmed him the watch, Shockley shoved him twice, struck a preventing pose, and reached towards his waistband as if he had a weapon, prosecutors claimed. The sufferer shouted for assist, which was shut at hand since he was standing in a police station car parking zone.
Fairly than operating down Madison Avenue or diving right into a getaway automotive, Shockley sprinted into the police station’s entrance door and straight into the loving arms of Chicago cops, officers mentioned.
That wasn’t the tip of the surprises: When a sergeant observed a suspicious bulge in Shockley’s underwear throughout a lockup search, he requested Shockley to take away it. It was an Audemars Piguet watch, white and gold, glittering with stones, and coated in Shockley’s humiliation.
Courtroom information present Shockly beforehand accomplished probation efficiently for a 2019 theft case. This time, Decide Howard gave him probation once more.
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