CHICAGO — Two more migrants have been charged with participating in a $19,000 smash-and-grab shoplifting raid on an Ulta Beauty store last month. Incredibly, one of them has already been arrested for stealing perfume from another store.
Back on September 27, three men walked into Ulta Beauty, 4140 South Pulaski, around 5:30 p.m. and used a rock to break locked display cases. The men gathered fragrances worth $18,906 and escaped in a Jeep that was waiting outside with a getaway driver, a Chicago police report said. Damage to the store’s displays totaled $1,710.
The report said an Ulta employee took pictures of the shoplifters and the Jeep’s license plate.
Chicago cops arrested Gabriel Garcia-Vizcaino, 18, a few days later. Prosecutors have also charged a 17-year-old juvenile.
Last week, officers arrested Astrubal Brito Marcano, 26, after a CPD surveillance camera operator allegedly saw him get into the getaway Jeep and drive away. Cops also arrested Javier Manrique Olivo, 19, on October 7.
They are all charged with burglary.
Olivo was released from police custody with a notice to appear in court later this month. A CPD report says he had that court notice in his pocket three days later when they arrested him for shoplifting perfume at Nordstrom, 55 East Grand, near the Magnificent Mile.
The report said an employee decided to keep an eye on Olivo after seeing him walk into the store with an empty Nordstrom bag. Olivo allegedly went to the fragrance section, placed five bottles of Valentino perfume into the bag, and tried to walk out. The perfumes were worth $785, according to the report.
Prosecutors charged him with felony retail theft in that case.
