CHICAGO — Chicagoans have heard rather a lot about postal staff being robbed at gunpoint over the previous couple of years. Nevertheless it’s not usually that we hear about individuals being despatched to jail for these crimes.
That’ll change for you in the present day as we report on the current sentencing of Deandre Davis, a 23-year-old who has pleaded responsible to holding up a mail provider on the North Aspect final 12 months.
Davis was on parole for armed theft when he allegedly pointed a gun on the postal employee and demanded her grasp keys in March 2022. Mail thieves use the stolen keys to steal mail, which fits on to gasoline well-organized id theft rings.
Surveillance video confirmed Davis get out of a Toyota Camry to rob the postal provider within the 6400 block of North Hoyne round 2:40 p.m., prosecutors mentioned. He allegedly demanded the 36-year-old man’s work keys, then fled within the car.
Chicago police detectives discovered further surveillance video of Davis getting out of the Camry in entrance of a Rogers Park house constructing after the theft. A constructing supervisor and Chicago cops who’d had earlier contact with Davis recognized him within the footage.
CPD arrested Davis a few months after the theft when he confirmed up for an appointment together with his parole officer.
In a cope with prosecutors, Davis pleaded responsible to armed theft in trade for a six-year sentence from Choose Shelley Sutker-Dermer. He’s anticipated to be paroled on April 30, 2026, after serving half of the sentence.
Court docket data present Davis acquired a six-year sentence for armed theft in 2021, too. In that case, he was convicted of collaborating in a January 2020 armed theft that ended with the sufferer being shot and killed when somebody stepped out of an alley and began capturing at them, in keeping with Chicago Police Division data. He was by no means accused of capturing the sufferer.
Prosecutors mentioned he additionally had two juvenile adjudications, one for armed carjacking and the opposite for theft and aggravated battery.
