Northbrook Nail Salon Armed Robber Gets 10 Years In Prison

SKOKIE, IL — A Chicago man pleaded guilty to robbing a Northbrook nail salon at gunpoint last year in exchange for a sentence of 10 years in state prison, Pioneer Press reported. Orlando Lofton, 20, of the 3600 block of West Fillmore Street in Chicago, pleaded guilty Oct. 22 to armed robbery, nearly a year after he and a juvenile companion were arrested following a police pursuit that included officers from Glenview, Niles, Northbrook and Morton Grove.

Police said the Lofton and his alleged accomplice entered the salon at 1512 Shermer Road on the afternoon of Oct. 28, 2017 armed with handguns, demanding the patrons turn over their belongings before fleeing. They were apprehended after they ditched the vehicle and jumped a fence into a Niles Park District waterpark, where one surrendered to a police dog and the other was tased.

Prosecutors said Lofton was a suspect in other robberies at the time of the Northbrook incidents and investigators had put a tracking device on his vehicle, according to Pioneer Press, and trailed the vehicle from the nail salon. Lofton was also charged with violent offenses in other jurisdictions.

Stolen cellphones and purses were recovered and returned to their owners after the pair's arrest. No one was injured in the robbery, according to police. Lofton, who was 19 at the time of the robbery, initially faced seven counts of armed robbery, each of which could have been punished with a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.

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