CHICAGO — Simply a few weeks in the past, we reported {that a} man had been given a 10-year sentence for setting hearth to the bedding part at Goal, 1 South State, final yr. Because it seems, there could also be extra to the story.
Officers now say the hearth was meant to function a distraction whereas one other man stole mobile telephones from the shop’s electronics division. Right here’s the news.
Round 7 p.m. on September 28, 2023, Ronald Langley, 26, allegedly used WD40 and a lighter to set pillows and blankets on hearth within the retailer’s bedding division, against the law that has him presently sitting in jail. You might keep in mind these social media clips of the hearth:
Whereas prospects and Goal staff had been distracted or evacuating the constructing, one other man, 37-year-old Kenneth Hasley, was secreted in an space close to the elevators, officers say. When the coast was clear, Hasley allegedly stepped out of hiding and used a crowbar to interrupt a show case within the electronics division. He scooped up telephones price $2,017 and headed towards the door, prosecutors mentioned in a detention petition.
Even with the hearth blazing elsewhere within the retailer, a Goal safety guard tried to forestall Hasley from leaving with the merchandise. Prosecutors mentioned Hasley pepper sprayed the guard and fled.
Decide Laura Ayala-Gonzalez detained Hasley pending trial.
In a separate matter, a grand jury has indicted Halsey on a number of counts of arson and felony injury in reference to a hearth that was set inside a visitor room on the Radisson Resort Schaumburg, 1550 North Roselle, on November 22, 2022. No particular particulars in regards to the suburban incident had been instantly accessible. He’s scheduled to be arraigned in that case on August 28.
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