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13-time convicted felon robbed North Side phone store with a parolee, prosecutors say {Chicago}
CWB Chicago ^ | May 8, 2023 | CWB Chicago staff writers

Posted on 05/09/2023 7:22:10 AM PDT by Salman

CHICAGO — Two men, including a 13-time convicted felon, robbed a North Side cellular store last week, prosecutors said. And they may have gotten away with it if they hadn’t stopped to pick up a disguised GPS tracking device from the store’s counter.

A store worker was talking on the phone with her mother when Romerio Morgan, 36, and Terrell Lewis, 32, walked into Metro by T-Mobile, 3409 West Belmont, around 3 p.m. Thursday, officials said.

The men took her phone, hung it up, and ordered the woman to take them to the store’s safe, prosecutors said.

Morgan allegedly grabbed cash and 57 phones from the safe and put them into a pink bag Lewis was holding. After grabbing another phone, which turned out to be a secret GPS tracker, the men headed out the back door, prosecutors said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; crime; theft
Really showing my age. Remember the concept of a "three time loser"?
1 posted on 05/09/2023 7:22:10 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Is a parolee a good weapon for robbing a place?

He must have heard “Leave the gun, take the parolee.”


2 posted on 05/09/2023 7:26:45 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Salman

That 13 strikes law is working well for Chicago...


3 posted on 05/09/2023 7:27:10 AM PDT by null and void (Be gentle with each other. You never know what someone is going through.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Well played...


4 posted on 05/09/2023 7:30:38 AM PDT by null and void (Be gentle with each other. You never know what someone is going through.)
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To: Salman
And they may have gotten away with it if they hadn’t stopped to pick up a disguised GPS tracking device from the store’s counter.

I guess they were a bit too greedy!
5 posted on 05/09/2023 7:31:37 AM PDT by systemjim ( Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: Salman

They’re probably already out on bail. The new Hizzoner is going to be a doozy. I predict Chicagostan will pass 1,000 murders this year.


6 posted on 05/09/2023 7:45:53 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Salman

They’re probably already out on bail. The new Hizzoner is going to be a doozy. I predict Chicagostan will pass 1,000 murders this year.


7 posted on 05/09/2023 7:45:53 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Salman

Yep, you doesn’t have to look, they’re rogue Amish just like you would suspect.

As they left the store they were heard yelling “I gots my reparations”.


8 posted on 05/09/2023 7:51:29 AM PDT by Roadrunner383
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

From the article. “Judge William Fahy ordered each man to pay a $10,000 bail deposit to be released on electronic monitoring.”


9 posted on 05/09/2023 8:12:37 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: shooter223

Jesus Christ I knew it


10 posted on 05/09/2023 8:23:55 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Salman

Yeah me too. I saw yesterday where California wants to change the three strike law:
“Its ideas for 2022 are ambitious, including an eventual end to the state’s controversial “three strikes” law and changes to lifetime prison sentences without the possibility of parole.”


11 posted on 05/09/2023 9:31:08 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Salman

BTTT


12 posted on 05/09/2023 9:42:46 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: shooter223

That is insane? To let them out on bail
What is wrong with that Judge?


13 posted on 05/09/2023 9:57:44 AM PDT by RWGinger (LGB)
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To: RWGinger

That is insane? To let them out on bail
What is wrong with that Judge?

If I was that girl I’d quit and get a job elsewhere.


14 posted on 05/09/2023 10:01:26 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: rxh4n1

Good advice.
At the least the owner should not have let her be alone


15 posted on 05/09/2023 12:40:05 PM PDT by RWGinger (LGB)
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To: rxh4n1

Good advice.
At the least the owner should not have let her be alone


16 posted on 05/09/2023 12:41:07 PM PDT by RWGinger (LGB)
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