Skokie man pleads guilty to Wheeling robbery

A 27-year-old Skokie man charged with using a BB gun to rob a mobile food truck worker pleaded guilty to aggravated battery charges recently in Rolling Meadows.

In exchange for his guilty plea, Ryan Jenkins was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 24 months probation. The court also ordered him to pay $645 in fines. He received credit for 134 days he has spent in custody.

Authorities say Jenkins and his co-defendant, Courtney Tucker, 25, approached the food truck in a parking lot on Northgate Parkway in Wheeling last August. Tucker distracted the victim with questions about prices while Jenkins approached the individual from behind and put a BB gun in his back, police said.

The defendants took the victim's money belt and fled in a tan minivan which Northbrook police spotted and pulled over a short time later, police said. The victim later identified the defendants as the individuals who had robbed him, police said.

Tucker, of Evanston, pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery last month and was sentenced to 24 months probation and 80 hours of community service. The court ordered him to pay $615 in fines.