$90,000 bond set for man charged in Hoffman Estates burglaries

Hoffman Estates police have charged an 18-year-old Schaumburg man with two counts of felony residential burglary and one count of felony possession of a motor vehicle.

Bond for Omar Alexis Mata-Lopez of the 2300 block of John Smith Drive was set at $90,000 Wednesday at the Cook County Courthouse in Rolling Meadows. He must post 10 percent to be released from jail.

Hoffman Estates police responded to a residential burglary report at 11:43 p.m. Monday on the 1300 block of Darlington Circle in which a home video surveillance system captured an image of the offender, who had fled after he encountered the homeowner in the bathroom.

During the investigation it was found that there was a second burglary on the same block, after midnight the same night, in which the burglar broke in through a sliding-glass door.

Schaumburg police investigating a report of reckless driving subsequently arrested Mata-Lopez during a traffic stop near Golf and Knollwood after he was reportedly observed throwing a GPS unit out of the vehicle, prosecutors said.

A Hoffman Estates officer identified him as the person in the home video and it was determined that the GPS and the vehicle had been stolen from one of the victims in the Hoffman Estates burglaries, police and prosecutors said. Other items stolen include money, two figurines, food and flashlights.

Mata-Lopez also faces a pending juvenile residential burglary case, prosecutors said. His next court date is Aug. 13.