Elgin cops: Machete-wielding robber stole tacos
Posted November 16, 2009 10:00 pm
A machete-wielding man on Sunday robbed a man in Elgin of his taco dinner, police said.
The victim was walking back to his vehicle near Villa and Fulton streets at about 10:04 p.m. after buying 16 tacos for $41 when a man in a black ski mask and yellow hoodie came running out from a vacant building in the 800 block of Villa with a machete.
"He was walking back (to his vehicle) with his tacos. A guy came out with a machete and took his tacos," said Elgin Deputy Chief Jeff Swoboda.
The victim was not injured in the incident, Swoboda said.
The suspect is described as a Hispanic man about 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-9 who left in a 1990s light green Chrysler or Plymouth, police said.
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