Carpentersville kidnapper gets 25 years

The ringleader in the kidnapping of six people abducted from a Round Lake Beach restaurant and tortured for hours in a Carpentersville home was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison.

Antonio "Goofy" Torres, 27, of Carpentersville pleaded guilty in November to charges of armed violence, kidnapping and aggravated discharge of a firearm stemming from the Aug. 19, 2006, attack. He was sentenced Friday by Kane County Judge Grant S. Wegner.

Torres was the last of seven reputed street gang members sentenced in the abduction, which ended in a police raid at a house on the 100 block of Tee Road in Carpentersville.

According to court documents, the kidnappers mistakenly thought there was cash and cocaine hidden inside the Villa's family restaurant in Round Lake Beach.

Masked and brandishing handguns, they raided the restaurant and took hostage a cook, a customer and a family of four after they couldn't find drugs or money.

The captives were bound with cable ties and duct tape, beaten, burned with cigarettes and threatened with rape for about six hours until police raided the house where they were being held.

Wegner said Torres would serve his 25-year prison sentence concurrent with a 25-year term he already is serving in a federal drug case, with credit for 898 days already served.

All but one of Torres' co-defendants also received prison sentences, ranging from 11 to 23 years.

In January, 17-year-old Sergio Martinez of Carpentersville pleaded guilty to aggravated unlawful restraint and was put on 30 months of probation and 133 days of electronic home monitoring, court records show.