Chicago cops needed less than two minutes to arrest an armed man who robbed a Boystown convenience store early Monday morning.
At about 3:22 a.m., a man walked into the 7-Eleven, 3407 North Halsted Street, displayed a gun, and took the store’s registers, according to a preliminary CPD report. While the robber scurried across the store’s parking lot with the registers, a 911 caller reported the robbery in progress.
Officers on patrol quickly spotted 33-year-old Antonio Robinson running behind an alley in the 800 block of West Roscoe Street, just across Halsted from the store. The cops detained Robinson after a short foot pursuit and recovered a handgun, according to CPD.
Robinson, who is charged with armed robbery, possession of a firearm by a repeat felon, and a couple of misdemeanors, will appear for a detention hearing at 26th and California on Wednesday afternoon.
According to court records, Robinson received a seven-year sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm in 2019 and another seven-year sentence for possessing and firing a handgun in 2015.
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