Man gets 19 years for west suburban burglaries

A Montgomery man was sentenced to 19 years in prison Thursday after he pleaded guilty to three business burglaries in the west suburb.

Christopher M. Sullivan, 44, agreed to a sentence of 19 years in exchange for a guilty plea to three counts of burglary, each a Class 2 felony, according to the Kane County state’s attorney’s office. Circuit Judge James Hallock accepted the plea Thursday.

Sullivan was arrested Feb. 18 when, during a conversation with a patrol officer in Aurora, he made statements about several business burglaries in the city, police said. Investigators interviewed him, launched an investigation, charged him with the one Aurora incident, and established him as a suspect in several other cases.

Prosecutors said Thursday that Sullivan eventually admitted to three separate burglaries.

About 8:30 p.m. Jan. 25, Sullivan smashed the front window of a restaurant in the 3700 block of East Main Street in St. Charles and stole the cash register, prosecutors said. The total loss was estimated at $1,100.

About 10 p.m. Feb. 13, he broke the glass of a front door of a restaurant in the 800 block of South River Street in Aurora and took the cash register, liquor and two televisions, worth a total of over $1,100, authorities said.

About 4 a.m. Feb. 18, Sullivan smashed through the front glass window of a business in the 600 block of Montgomery Road in Montgomery, prosecutors said. He stole the cash drawer from a lottery machine and several lottery scratch tickets. The total value of the damaged and stolen property was estimated at over $1,500.

Sullivan, who lives in the 1300 block of Hinckley Street in Montgomery, is subject to extended sentencing because he was on parole at the time and has multiple prior convictions for “a variety of offenses,” prosecutors said. He is eligible for day-for-day sentencing and was given credit for 97 days served in the Kane County jail.