2 Charged After Burglars Hit Midlothian Gaming Café, Lead Police On Chase: Midlothian PD

MIDLOTHIAN, IL — Two men have been charged in connection with a burglary at a Midlothian gaming café early Wednesday, police said Thursday.

On March 4, at approximately 4:30 a.m., Midlothian police were dispatched to Anna’s Café (4459 W. 147th St) for a burglary in progress. Officers at the scene saw numerous masked offenders exiting the business, and getting into two separate vehicles. These vehicles were later learned to be stolen. A third lookout vehicle was at the corner, police said.

The first car of suspects in the stolen vehicle fled from police, but crashed into a parked vehicle, in the area of 150th and Kilbourne Avenue. The suspects then fled on foot, and police quickly set up a perimeter.

The two other vehicles fled from the scene, as well. Officers from outside jurisdictions pursued those suspects, but ultimately lost them due to the suspects' erratic and reckless driving, police said.

Police who were working a Burglary Task Force detail (which Midlothian Police Chief Daniel Delaney said was recently created to address similar incidnts) responded and assisted with the search. Officers deployed drones and K9’s and ultimately located two of the three suspects and took them into custody.

Midlothian detectives found sledgehammers and two loaded handguns with extended magazines inside the stolen vehicle, police said.

Christian Streeter, 19, of Lynwood, and Amarion Mayo, 20, of Hammond, Indiana were both arrested and charged. Mayo was charged with burglary, criminal damage to property ($10k-$100k), unlawful possession of a stolen motor vehicle, aggravated fleeing to elude, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and resisting a peace officer.

Streeter was charged with burglary, criminal damage to property ($10k-$100k), aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, criminal trespass to a motor vehicle, and resisting a peace officer.

The officers working on the burglary detail were from the Cook County Sheriff’s Department, police departments in Posen, Alsip, Oak Lawn, Blue Island, Markham, Dixmoor, Tinley Park and Midlothian, and also from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).

Chief Delaney said on Thursday that the Midlothian Police Department joined the Burglary Task Force to address the burglaries to gaming facilities that are occurring in Midlothian and all over the Chicagoland area.

"Hundreds of burglaries have occurred to gaming facilities over the last year, resulting in millions of dollars of losses and damages," Delaney wrote on social media. "The offenders are using stolen vehicles, wearing masks and gloves, and will drive erratically and recklessly to escape police. Jurisdictions throughout the Chicagoland area are combining resources and personnel and developing tactics to address these issues.

"I want to thank the Midlothian Officers and Detectives for their continued outstanding work. I also would like to thank the Officers who were working the Burglary Task Force detail, Crestwood PD, the dispatchers from CalComm Dispatch and the dispatchers from Cook County Dispatch for their assistance, professionalism, and determination to help locate these violent offenders."