3 charged in Gurnee gas station robbery

Two men were ordered held Saturday on $2 million bond for their alleged roles in an armed robbery at a Gurnee gas station.

Kavin Spivey, 29, and Travis L. Fleming, 36, both of 12951 E. Trinity Lane in St. Anne, face charges of armed robbery with a firearm and attempted murder in connection with the Dec. 1 crime, in which a woman was dragged from her car by her hair and robbed as she sat at the gas pump. A gas station clerk who'd tried to chase the men was shot at during the incident.

The charges are felonies that could carry sentences of up to 30 years in prison.

Authorities say both Spivey and Fleming have significant criminal backgrounds.

Lamar D. Hicks, 16, also of St. Anne, was in court Friday for the same case -- he faces the same charges -- and is now held on $1 million bond, officials with the Lake County state's attorney's office said.

The trio are accused of robbing a 23-year-old Glenview woman at the Gurnee Shell station, at 6050 Route 132, near Gurnee Mills mall.

Authorities have said two of the men approached the woman as she sat in her car with her wallet on her lap, then reached in and began fighting her for it. When she refused to hand it over, one of the men allegedly dragged her from the car, threw her to the ground and snatched the wallet.

The duo then ran off and got into a Ford pickup truck.

Fleming is the truck's alleged driver, police said in a news release Saturday.

Spivey is accused of taking the women's wallet and firing off two shots afterward at the station clerk -- a witness who ran after the men. The gunshots missed.

Hicks, who is identified in the police news release only as a 16-year-old male, allegedly stood by as a "lookout."

Both the woman and the clerk declined medical attention.

Police said Saturday that the men used one of the victim's stolen credit cards at a Wisconsin gas station shortly after the crime. The truck allegedly used in the Gurnee robbery later was identified in video footage from the Wisconsin gas station, too.

The truck was registered to a Milwaukee address, but police said they later were able to track the driver to a St. Anne residence. Gurnee and Kankakee County officers went to that home Wednesday, police said, and found the three suspects hiding.