Police: Pizza Trail Led Cops to Men Who Robbed, Beat Delivery Man
Two Romeoville men were arrested Tuesday night after police said they lured a pizza driver to a vacant home and beat him with a rubber hammer.
Two Romeoville men are in jail Wednesday after calling in a phony pizza order, then assaulting the delivery driver and stealing his cell phone and cash, police said. William C. Whitford, 18, of the 500 block of Maggie, and Allen Freeman Jr., 20, of the 1200 block of Sante Fe, face aggravated robbery charges. Police said the men called in an order for two pizzas to the Rosati’s Pizza restaurant in Bolingbrook, giving the address of a vacant foreclosed home in Romeoville. The men then laid in wait for the driver, Assistant Police Chief Steven Lucchesi said. After arriving at the home in the 500 block of Frieh, the delivery man knocked on the door but received no answer. Lucchesi said the bandits struck as he walked back to his car. “They set…
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Shannon Antinori
8:25 pm on Sunday, April 22, 2012
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