Oak Forest Man Nabbed For Orland Home Invasion and Safe Robbery: Cops

An Oak Forest man wanted for allegedly tying up two women and stealing the safe from their Orland Park home was nabbed while hiding out in a Tinley Park apartment, police said.

Timothy Adkins, 30, was charged with aggravated kidnapping, armed robbery, aggravated unlawful restraint and home invasion in connection with the May 29 incident at a residence on Halesia Court.

Cops rushed to the house on Halesia after receiving a 911 call shortly before 8:30 a.m. that day.

“The caller reported that two men had just fled the home minutes earlier with a wall safe that contained money and jewelry,” the police said in a statement released Friday. “Upon arrival on Halesia Court officers learned that the two male suspects entered the home through an unlocked front door while the three occupants of the home were sleeping.”

The housebreakers “restrained” two women, police said. A man in another part of the house reportedly slept through the episode.

Orland Park Police Cmdr. John Keating declined to say how the two women were restrained or to identify the weapons Adkins and the other man allegedly armed themselves with for the robbery. He did say neither man had a gun or a knife, and that they knew what they were coming for.

“The subsequent investigation by Orland Park Police determined that the Halesia Court residence was specifically targeted and not randomly chosen,” the statement said.

Adkins and the second man learned of the safe stuffed with cash and jewelry by word of mouth, Keating said.

“Somehow someone told somebody,” he said.

Adkins was identified as one of the robbers within days of the attack, police said. On Wednesday, the cops reportedly captured him while he was hiding out in an apartment on Oak Park Avenue. The two women picked him out of a lineup on Thursday.

Adkins’ alleged accomplice remains at large but “persons of interest have been identified,” according to police.