A Venezuelan migrant acquired a seven-year sentence on Thursday after pleading responsible to robbing concertgoers within the Loop following final yr’s Lollapalooza, together with one sufferer he severely injured by beating him with a scooter.
Revelers have been heading house after the pageant’s ultimate evening on August 4, 2024, when 24-year-old Edinson Yanez focused the gang in at the very least two robberies.
Round 11 p.m., Yanez allegedly plowed an electrical scooter right into a 26-year-old suburban man and stole the sufferer’s gold chain within the 50 block of East Jackson Boulevard. Prosecutors mentioned Yanez bit the person and beat him with the scooter, breaking two of the sufferer’s ribs.
Whereas police have been talking with that sufferer, they discovered different CPD officers had detained a suspect who allegedly robbed one other man within the 300 block of South Dearborn Road, in accordance with a police report.
In that case, two males from suburban Atlanta, ages 19 and 26, mentioned Yanez grabbed considered one of them by the shirt and stole a cellphone and necklace. He tried, however failed, to take a series from the second man, prosecutors mentioned. Officers tracked the stolen cellphone’s location to search out Yanez close by.
Yanez was already on pretrial launch for a home violence case on the time of the robberies.
Decide Mary Brosnahan famous the “severely injured” sufferer who was crushed with a scooter and the randomness of the assaults on concertgoers as causes she determined to maintain Yanez in jail.
On Thursday, Yanez pleaded responsible to 2 counts of theft earlier than Brosnahan, who sentenced him to a pair of concurrent seven-year jail phrases. With good conduct, he will likely be launched after serving half the time.
