Man Sentenced to Five Years for Cross-Town Robbery Spree
A man who went on a cross-town robbery spree while wearing an ankle monitor has been given a five-year sentence. His alleged accomplice, coincidentally, is at large after escaping from electronic monitoring while fighting the charges.
Bryant Robinson, 22, pleaded guilty to four robberies in exchange for concurrent five-year terms from Judge Shelley Sutker-Dermer, according to court records.
Prosecutors said Robinson, Jerome Jackson, and at least two others allegedly began their two-hour spree around 10 p.m. on November 1, 2024, at the 79th Street Red Line station, where they took a victim’s Beats headphones.
After riding the Red Line north, the group mugged a 57-year-old man in the 4200 block of North Clarendon, according to prosecutors. He told police that four men surrounded him as he walked, and Robinson rifled through his pockets for valuables. Robinson took the man’s cash, tossed the billfold to the ground, and fled, a Chicago police report said.
The group also robbed a 26-year-old woman in the 3200 block of North Pine Grove. When her boyfriend tried to intervene, Robinson raised his shirt to display what appeared to be a firearm in his waistband, according to the report.
In the 600 block of West Waveland, the crew grabbed a man by the throat, dragged him between planters and parked cars, and forced him to his knees as they robbed him, officials said.
A Chicago police surveillance camera operator spotted four people who matched the suspects’ descriptions entering the Addison Red Line station a short time later. Officers moved in and arrested them. A pistol-shaped Taser was allegedly recovered from the crew.
Robinson was on electronic monitoring for an assault and obstruction case at the time of the robberies. He must serve half of his sentence, giving him a projected release date of April 30, 2027.
Court records show that Jackson, whose real name is Davaughn Credit, failed to appear in court on November 7. Prosecutors filed an escape charge against him, and Judge Sutker-Dermer issued arrest warrants in the pending robbery cases, the records show.
During his first court appearance last year, prosecutors requested that Judge David Kelly keep him in custody pending trial. But Kelly, who earned a statistically-proven reputation as the most defendant-friendly judge in the court’s pretrial division, sent him home on an ankle monitor.
