A 36-year-old man, Donte Elbert, has been arrested for robbing the same retail business 11 times.
Elbert was arrested on Monday by the Chicago Police Department, New York Post reports
The suspect was said to have robbed the store 11 times between December 2022 and April, according to police.
Elbert was arrested on West Belmont Avenue, a police statement said.
“He was taken into custody b/c he tried to pass the last point of sale… without paying for merchandise,” a representative for the Chicago Police Department told Fox News Digital.
The representative added that the personnel at the store where the suspect robbed signed formal complaints, which led to his arrest.
Elbert also allegedly stole merchandise from a different location on the 3200 block of N. Broadway.
The suspect faces nine felony counts of retail theft of merchandise less than $300, three felony counts of retail theft of merchandise with a value of more than $300, and one misdemeanor count of criminal trespassing.
Editor’s Note
In our post on February 19, 2023, in a story ‘Woman burns self to death over failure to offset N70,000 loan’, we reported that a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze over her inability to pay back a loan of N70,000 she reportedly took from a microfinance bank, LAPO. We have since discovered that the microfinance bank referred to in the story was not LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited. We apologise to the LAPO Group for the error in the identification of the name of the said microfinance bank where the deceased took the loan. The mix-up in the name of the MFB is not deliberate.
