Man gets 12-year sentence for robbing Aurora store

A Naperville man pleaded guilty Friday to robbing a grocery liquor store in Aurora.

Jalen Martinez, 25, agreed to a sentence of 12 years in prison. He will have to serve at least half before he is eligible for parole.

Martinez initially was charged with using a gun, but that was amended to an unspecified "dangerous weapon."

He and another person threatened a clerk around 10 p.m. Feb. 25, 2021, at the One Stop store, 259 S. Lake St. He took $750.

Martinez was on parole at the time of the robbery. He had pleaded guilty in 2018 to robbing a 14-year-old boy at gunpoint in Naperville and received a six-year sentence.

He has been held in the Kane County jail since July 2021.