DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced Friday, February 7, 2025 that a Chicago resident on federal probation has been sentenced to twenty-two years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for robbing a Glendale Heights Business in April 2023. Odell Wright, age 49, formerly of the block of 1400 South Pulaski Road, appeared in Court on October 14, 2023, where the Court ordered he be detained pre-trial. On December 5, 2024, following a three-day-long trial, a jury found Wright guilty of one count of Aggravated Robbery, a Class 1 Felony. Today’s sentence was handed down by Judge Daniel Guerin.
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Glendale Heights Police Department responded about 1:54 p.m. Wednesday, April 26, 2023 to a call of a robbery at Stella’s Place located at 2190 Bloomingdale Road in Glendale Heights. Following an investigation into the matter, authorities learned that Wright entered the establishment shortly after 12:00 p.m. and began playing a slot machine. At approximately 1:40 p.m., Wright approached an employee at the front counter, indicated he had a firearm and ordered the employee to open the cash register and give him the money in the register. After the employee complied with Wright’s orders, Wright fled the establishment. Through the course of the investigation, authorities developed Wright as a suspect. On October 13, 2023, Wright was taken into custody without incident. Wright was on federal probation at the time of his arrest.
“Violence, such as we saw in this case, has no place in civilized society. Judge Guerin’s twenty-two-year sentence sends the unmistakable message that if you commit this type of brazen crime in DuPage County, the penalty will be significant. While I am sure this was a very traumatic event for the employee at Stella’s, we are all thankful no one was injured. I thank the Glendale Heights Police Department for their outstanding work in the identification and apprehension Mr. Wright in this case and for their continued efforts in keeping our business establishments safe. I also thank Assistant State’s Attorneys Alyssa Rabulinski and Jaclyn McAndrew for their work securing charges against Mr. Wright.”
— DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin
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