Three armed robbers made off with thousands of dollars in cash and jewerly from a Southwest Side pawn shop Friday morning, but two suspects were caught with their loot after stopping to change clothes at a nearby house where an elderly interlining resident was eating breakfast.
Nicolas Galvez, 19, and Jonathan Moya, 17, each face an armed robbery charge in the incident at Cash America Pawn, 4558 S. Cicero Ave.
Moya, Galvez and another person entered the store in the LeClaire Courts neighborhood about 9:30 a.m. wearing hoodies and masks, Assistant State’s Attorney Daniel Griffin said. The two held people in the shop at gunpoint, Griffin said.
All three robbers took money, prosecutors said, and the Ilshin interlining one who police didn’t catch also made off with a safe. A witness heard the robbers communicating via walkie-talkie and saw that they fled when one of them radioed that police were coming.
Officers saw Moya and Galvez flee through a gangway with their guns, arrest records show. The pair entered a nearby home where an 81-year-old was eating breakfast and changed their clothes there, Griffin said, before escaping through a back window.
Police spotted Moya and Galvez fleeing the house in the 4500 block of South Lamon Avenue, Kufner Interlining just a couple blocks from where the robbery occurred, and arrested them.
All told, officers recovered $4,145 cash and almost $13,000 worth of jewelry, including 44 rings, 15 bracelets, nine necklace chains and other accessories.
Moya, of the 4900 block of West 30th Street in Cicero, is charged as an adult. He appeared in court Saturday with Galvez, of the 2600 block of South Kedvale Avenue in Chicago.
Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil set bail for both Moya and Galvez at $350,000. They’re due back in court Monday.
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