Two men were charged Tuesday in connection with a burglary a couple weeks earlier near north suburban Lake Bluff.
On May 18, deputies responded to the burglary in the 200 block of Juneway Terrace in unincorporated Lake Bluff, according to the Lake County sheriff’s office. Someone had broken into the residence while nobody was home and took several items, including a firearm.
On May 29, Park City police stopped a vehicle in the 700 block of South Chestnut that matched the description of a suspicious vehicle from the burglary provided by a neighbor at the time, the sheriff’s office said.
The driver, 25-year-old Theopolis Owens, was charged with one felony count each of residential burglary, possession of stolen property and theft over $500 after sheriff’s police searched his residence three days later and found the proceeds from the burglary, according to the sheriff’s office.
Owens’ passenger, 25-year-old Martell Ford, was found with the stolen firearm and charged in Park City with one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, both felonies, according to the sheriff’s office.
Owens, of the 700 block of South Chestnut, was ordered held on a $50,000 bond and was next scheduled to appear in court June 9. Ford, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was ordered held on a $100,000 bond and was scheduled to appear in court Friday.
