Illinois: Four Chicago Men Charged After $13,847 Gaming Café Burglary and Police Chase

Prosecutors say it took five people about two minutes to smash the gaming machines at a video gaming café in Addison, Illinois, and leave with $13,847. What followed was a chase at more than 100 mph and a run on foot across Interstate 290.

Four Chicago men are now charged. A DuPage County judge on Friday, October 30, 2026, granted prosecutors’ request to keep Keonte Adams, 20; Dajuan Johnson, 24; Kyronte McCondichie, 20; and Daryl Nesbit, 19, in custody before trial.

The details come from the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office, as reported by FOX 32 Chicago and NBC Chicago. The charges are allegations, and all four are presumed innocent.

Two minutes inside, prosecutors say

Police were already watching. Early on Thursday, October 29, Addison officers and other DuPage County agencies were running an operation in response to a series of burglaries at gaming businesses in the county and the surrounding region, according to the reports.

At about 4:32 a.m., officers spotted a stolen black Dodge Durango and a stolen white BMW traveling together on Lake Street, authorities said. About five minutes later, both vehicles backed into parking spaces outside Maria’s Gaming Café at 40 E. Lake St.

Prosecutors allege five people went in, four of them armed, using sledgehammers and a crowbar. In about two minutes, the group smashed gaming machines and took cash boxes, then drove off in both vehicles.

Investigators later put the loss from the machines at $13,847. The damage to the café itself topped $100,000, authorities told NBC Chicago.

Spike strips, then a run across I-290

During the getaway, prosecutors say, the BMW ran over spike strips. Its three occupants climbed into the Durango, which then carried eight people.

Elmhurst police tried to stop the Durango near Lake Street and Route 83, but the driver kept going. Villa Park officers joined the pursuit on North Avenue, where the SUV allegedly topped 100 mph.

A second set of spike strips stopped it. All eight occupants got out and ran north across Interstate 290 into a neighborhood near Van Buren Street and 31st Avenue in Bellwood, and three guns fell out of the SUV as they ran, authorities said.

Officers used K-9 units and drones in the search that followed, and four people were taken into custody. The reports do not say what happened to the other people in the vehicle.

What police say they found

Inside the Durango, authorities said, were three loaded guns: two Glock handguns and a Zastava AK-style firearm. One handgun had a device attached that could convert it from semiautomatic to fully automatic fire, prosecutors said.

Officers also recovered a sledgehammer, a pry bar and a cash box. Two more guns and another sledgehammer were found in the BMW.

Each of the four men is charged with:

• armed violence
• unlawful possession of a weapon (machine gun)
• burglary
• possession of a stolen motor vehicle
• criminal damage to property
• aggravated fleeing and eluding

Why gaming machines draw thieves

Video gaming terminals are legal in Illinois at licensed locations such as bars, restaurants and truck stops, and the machines hold cash. In Addison alone, 31 licensed locations reported 184 video gaming terminals in September 2026, according to the Illinois Gaming Board’s monthly revenue report.

That month, players put about $6.2 million into those machines and cashed out about $4.8 million, leaving roughly $1.44 million in net terminal income.

The Addison case is the latest in a run of Illinois gaming-machine burglaries this fall. In cases GameEmpress reported in September, police said suspects in a burglary near Lake Villa also fled at more than 100 mph, and that an eight-person crew targeted six machines at a Peotone travel center.

The reports on the Addison case do not link it to any other burglary. The four defendants are due back in court on November 23, according to FOX 32 Chicago.