A man had three job interviews lined up for fast-food restaurants and felt the best way to strengthen his application was to rob from similar restaurants.
Abail Bekele robbed two Subway restaurants, two weeks after being released for burglarizing a wireless store near his residence. The 20-year-old demanded one of the employees at the Subway restaurant get him “all of the bread.”
Trouble started on April 26, 2023, when Chicago police officers observed a shattered glass door at Cricket Wireless and found Bekele inside the store. Police witnessed him carrying phone cases and broken dummy phones. He also had three IDs, stuffed in his pockets, which belonged to other people.
Prosecutors confirmed that Bekele confessed to stealing the ID cards from the Xsport in Lakeview. He was charged with “burglary, theft of lost or mislaid property and identity theft.” At the time, Judge Charles Beach asked him to pay a $500 bail deposit in order to be sent home.
That punishment wasn’t enough to keep him from committing other crimes. Two weeks later, Bekele entered a Subway restaurant and threatened the cashier for all of the cash. If the worker didn’t oblige, Bekele said he would shoot him.
The cashier, startled by the threat, opened the register and handed over the cash.
After that robbery, Bekele headed to another Subway restaurant and asked for bread. The employee questioned him on the type of bread and Bekele gestured towards his waist. In fear of armed weapons, the worker gave all of the money and ran into the back of the store.
After the bail hearing, Judge Maryam Ahmad ruled Bekele to be held without bail and he was “charged with two counts of robbery and one count of attempted robbery.”
Subway will discard his job application fast with his alarming track record of robberies.
Source: https://cwbchicago.com/2023/05/chicago-uptown-robberies-subway-restaurants-abail-bekele.html