CHICAGO — One of the men accused of robbing a victim at gunpoint after arranging to meet him for a bit of fun via Grindr, the gay dating app, has been given a seven-year prison sentence. Andre Mhoon, 30, and Antoine Perteet, 35, went to the victim’s home in the 1900 block of West Morse on June 28, 2023.
In court filings, prosecutors said Perteet met the man on a dating app, and the victim agreed to let Perteet and Mhoon come to his home. They arrived at the victim’s house around 11:30 p.m. and, once inside, pulled out guns. They robbed the man, forced him to lie down in the bedroom, and took his cash and phone, prosecutors alleged.
The complaint said Perteet forced the man to unlock the device and then accessed his digital wallet. While Mhoon held the victim at gunpoint, Perteet allegedly went to an ATM and tried to make a withdrawal with the phone.
Prosecutors said Perteet and Mhoon collected the man’s jewelry and credit cards, then left.
The next day, Chase notified the victim that someone tried to use his debit card at one of their branches in Rogers Park. The victim also learned that one of his cards was used at a gas station on the Far North Side and a liquor store in Waukegan.
Perteet, who was a teacher at a Christian school in Waukegan at the time of the allegations, continues to fight the charge as well as a second, similar robbery.
On Tuesday, Mhoon pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery before Judge Maria Kuriakos-Ciesel, according to court records. She handed him seven years, which will be reduced by 50% with good behavior. The remaining time will be reduced by another 590 days of credit Mhoon earned since being arrested.
Prosecutors claimed last year that Chicago police evidence technicians found Mhoon’s fingerprint at the scene of a “similar” armed robbery, which allowed investigators to link him to the Rogers Park case. He was never charged with any other robberies, though.
