A 19-year-old Chicago man charged with robbing two food delivery drivers at gunpoint was already a wanted man at the time, court records show — he had vanished from a pending felony gun case weeks before the first alleged robbery.
Treshon Redmond faces two counts of armed robbery and one count of felony theft after CPD said he pointed firearms at delivery drivers to take their food and cash, then walked off with an entire cash register from a taco restaurant.
According to court records, Redmond failed to appear at a February 11 hearing in his gun case. At that hearing, a court officer told Cook County Judge John Lyke that Redmond had not checked in with their office a single time since Lyke released him from custody on November 4 and ordered him to report monthly. Public court filings show no indication that the court officer had informed Lyke of Redmond’s failure to comply in either December or January. Lyke signed an arrest warrant for Redmond during the February hearing
Three days later, prosecutors say, Redmond pulled a gun on a 52-year-old pizza delivery driver in the 1500 block of South Sawyer and ordered him to, “Give me the money and the pizza.” On March 5, he allegedly confronted a 53-year-old delivery driver on the same block, taking $380 and seafood.
CPD, unaware that Redmond had allegedly been committing robberies. arrested Redmond on March 12 during a domestic altercation, according to court records. Sheriff’s deputies brought him back before Lyke on March 19, and Lyke set him free again with orders to check in with the court officer.
Then, on April 29, prosecutors say he walked into Lucido’s Tacos at 4147 West 26th Street, grabbed the cash register, and fled on foot. Again, he wasn’t connected to that crime until recently.
But, on May 5, prosecutors dropped the gun case and Redmond started life anew — only to have CPD detectives now link him to the robberies and cash register theft. Judge Luciano Panici, Jr. ordered him detained on the new charges.
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