CHICAGO — A six-time convicted felon, arrested no fewer than 60 times in his adult life and on parole for stealing packages in Lakeview, is back behind bars after prosecutors accused him of stealing packages in Lakeview again.
Errick Shambley, 54, was returned to the Stateville Correctional Center last week for violating his parole. But he won’t be there long. Records indicate he will be released this coming Sunday, the day his parole is scheduled to end.
In the latest allegations, officials said Shambley stole packages belonging to two residents of a building in the 2900 block of North Halsted over the summer. Chicago cops recently arrested him to face charges after the building’s property manager saw Shambley at a nearby Starbucks and flagged down a passing patrol car.
He has faced charges for package theft in the 2900 block of North Halsted at least three times since 2018.
Last October, Judge Shelley Sutker-Dermer gave Shambley a two-year sentence after he pleaded guilty to stealing packages from a complex in the 3300 block of North Ashland. The prosecutor who handled that case said he posed as an Amazon worker and rang the building’s buzzers until someone let him in.
Police arrested Shambley in 2019 after identifying him as the burglar responsible for package thefts from the 2900 block of North Racine and the 1100 block of West Wolfram during Christmas 2018. Police also accused him of stealing three packages from a home in the 2900 block of North Halsted the previous summer. That’s the same block where the latest burglaries allegedly occurred. He pleaded guilty in one case and received probation. Prosecutors dropped the other charges.
Shambley received a 60-day jail sentence in September 2018 for stealing packages from the 2900 block of Halsted and the 3700 block of North Bosworth. That year, he also received probation for stealing a package from the 800 block of West Buckingham.
His previous prison sentences include a pair of 2-year sentences for theft in 2016, 3 years for burglary in 2007, one year for narcotics in 2005, and three years for manufacture-delivery of a controlled substance in 1994.
