Five Bolingbrook men arrested in series of robberies
Five Bolingbrook men face charges in connection with a series of armed robberies last month in Bolingbrook and Romeoville, authorities said Monday.
The men were arrested without incident during a two-hour period Friday, police said, and transported to the Will County adult detention facility in Joliet.
Police said the arrests came in response to three robberies in late February in which victims reported being held-up at gunpoint.
Those held in connection with the robberies are:
• Antwon L. Davis, 17, of 21 Elm Court, who is charged with aggravated robbery and attempted aggravated robbery and is being held on $1 million bond;
• Sena K. Ador, 18, of 584 Lakeside Farms Drive, who is charged with aggravated robbery and attempted aggravated robbery and is being held on $1 million bond;
• Terrence Suggs-Nichols, 18, of 366B Whitewater Unit 308, who is charged with aggravated robbery and is being held on $250,000 bond;
• Patrick A. Kwarten, 20, of 1067 Jennifer Lane, who is charged with attempted aggravated robbery and is being held on $250,000 bond;
• and Charles D. Smothers, 19, of 484 Foxborough Trail, who is charged with attempted aggravated robbery and is being held on $250,000 bond.
Bolingbrook Lt. Ken Teppel said Davis and Ador have higher bonds because police believe they were directly involved in all three robberies. The others apparently played smaller roles, he said.
Teppel said all five men still were in custody Monday and the Will County state's attorney's office is considering additional charges.
Bolingbrook and Romeoville detectives were able to identify the suspects through eyewitness accounts, tips from the community and evidence collected from the scenes, Teppel said.
He said it appears the men used a pellet gun that resembled a real gun during the robberies. He said police haven't recovered the weapon.
The first of the robberies occurred Feb. 22 when a man told police he was robbed at gunpoint while sitting in his car outside a restaurant on the 700 block of East Boughton Road.
A week later, on Feb. 29, a woman told Bolingbrook officers a gunman tried to rob her in a parking lot outside a store on the 700 block of East Boughton Road. The woman said she ran from her car shouting for help.
Later that day, Romeoville police received a report from a man who said he was robbed at gunpoint in a parking lot on the 1200 block of Lake View Drive.