Police: Huntley man used BB gun to rob E. Dundee, LITH businesses
A Huntley man has been arrested on charges he robbed an East Dundee gas station with a BB gun early Thursday morning, making off with $459, police said.
Police have also linked the suspect and weapon to an armed robbery that occurred 24 hours earlier at a 7-Eleven in Lake in the Hills. Lake in the Hills officers have issued a warrant for his arrest, charging him with aggravated robbery for using the same weapon to take more than $200, Deputy Chief Mary Frake said.
In the East Dundee case, Brandon L. McBryde, 21, of the 12100 block of Sinnett Street, was charged with aggravated robbery, robbery and theft, police said.
His bail was set at $75,000 and he needs 10 percent of that to secure his freedom while the case is pending. But even if he makes bond in that case, he’ll still need $10,000 to get out of the McHenry County jail on the Lake in the Hills charge, Frake said.
According to police:
At 12:18 a.m., officers were dispatched to the Shell Station at 160 Dundee Ave. in East Dundee for an armed robbery in which the masked suspect showed a handgun to the only clerk on duty and demanded cash from the register. After obtaining the money, McBryde ran north from the station.
Police from East Dundee and Carpentersville tracked McBryde down two minutes later near the gas station, driving a blue Chrysler Sebring southbound on Route 25 from Balmoral Drive, and pulled him over in front of the station.
“There’s only basically one way in, one way out there,” Chief Terry Mee said. “He had to come back out on Route 25. That’s how we got him.”
Police searched the car and found a black ski mask, black gloves, a black hooded sweatshirt, the cash and the weapon, which police identified as a BB gun.
During the investigation, police determined McBryde wore the same outfit and carried the same gun when he robbed the 7-Eleven the previous morning at 12:54 a.m., police said. The store is in the 4500 block of West Algonquin Road.
McBryde is due in court next Thursday at the Kane County Judicial Center on the East Dundee charges. If found guilty of aggravated robbery, he could spend up to 15 years in prison. His court date on the Lake in the Hills charge was not yet available.