Bail set in Schaumburg armed robbery

Bail was set at $200,000 Thursday for a Schaumburg man who police say robbed a business at gunpoint in 2009.

Martino Jackson, of the 1000 block of Dickens Way, entered the Schaumburg business carrying a firearm in the company of another person at about 3 p.m. Dec. 4, 2009, said Cook County Assistant State's Attorney Bill Cotter. The other person tied up a worker while Jackson took more than $1,000, Cotter said.

Police received information earlier this month implicating the defendant, who the victim identified in a photo lineup, Cotter said. Police arrested Jackson, 38, near his home earlier this week. They also conducted a search of the premises that turned up a .22 caliber firearm, which the defendant admitted belonged to him, Cotter said.

Jackson has a lengthy criminal background and is currently on parole. Police charged him with armed robbery, a class X felony that carries a possible prison sentence of six to 30 years, and with unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, a class 3 felony punishable by two to five years in prison.

Jackson was convicted of armed robbery in 2005 and was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison, and again in 1992, for which he was sentenced to seven years, Cotter said. In 2002, he also was sentenced to six years for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. He received a three-year sentence on a similar conviction in 1997.

He next appears in a Rolling Meadows courtroom on Feb. 14.