Crime & Safety
Homeowner Fights Off Intruder in Attempted Robbery Near Westmont: Police
The 19-year-old Chicago man is being held on a $100,000 bond for charges of attempted aggravated robbery and burglary.
Authorities arrested a 19-year-old Chicago man who is accused in an attempted aggravated robbery Friday night at a home in unincorporated Westmont.
Malik Jones is accused of entering a home on Park Street and fighting with the homeowner who police said he was attempting to rob, according to a DuPage County Sheriff’s Office press release. The homeowner was able to fight off Jones.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to the scene and took Jones into custody.
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Jones is being held at the DuPage County Jail on a $100,000 bond. He is charged with one county of attempted aggravated robbery, a class 2 felony, and one county of burglary, a class 2 felony.
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