Five illegal migrants, all young people, are confronted with a mix of burglary and theft for two incidents in the Oakbrook Center shopping center on Monday, officials said. Judge Chantelle Porter ordered three of them held.
“Although the shopping center and the entire Oak Brook community are extremely hospitable, I want to emphasize that it is only hospitable for those who obey the law,” said Oak Brook Chief of Police Brian Strockis.
Three of the young people were arrested around 3 p.m. in the Nordstrom store of the shopping center after the store employees said the group collaborated to steal items. One of them came in a fitting room and the other two brought clothing items to him, said the law firm of the state of Dupage County.
An officer of loss prevention noted that merchandise worth $ 138 was missing and he confronted the young people while they walked away. Officials said the young people were struggling with the security officer and one of them took a blow.
The trio entered the mall, but they were then arrested by Oak Brook Police Department officers after a foot hunt.
All three are accused of crime accusations of burglary and theft and crime counts of resisting the police and theft of the store.
Less than 45 minutes later, Oak Brook officers responded to a theft of the shops at the location of the shopping center.
Civil servants said that two young people took six clothing items with a value of more than $ 300 in a dressing room and cut off the security sensors. A police officer Oak Brook waited for them when they walked out of the store without paying.
The office of the state’s office said that one of the young people had a 13-inch kitchen knife with an 8-inch knife filled in his waistband.
The couple is each accused of theft of crime and one is accused of armed violence, a count that indicates that he was wearing a weapon and drug at the same time.
“I find it particularly disturbing, the claim that in one of the incidents one of the accused has armed himself with a thirteen-inch knife. Fortunately, nobody was injured and all five of the young people were safely detained,” said Strockis.
He called the five young people ‘illegal migrants’ who ‘came to Oak Brook with criminal intentions and they were confronted with a large -scale police response to bring them to court.’
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