Prosecutors have charged a 19-year-old man with taking part in multiple burglary sprees across Chicago, including one attempted break-in during Tuesday morning’s crime wave that damaged nearly two dozen North Side businesses.
Prosecutors did not ask Judge John Hock to detain Charles Kelley while the case is pending. Instead, Hock released him on electronic monitoring.
At the time of the alleged burglaries, Kelley was already on pretrial release in a separate case involving criminal trespass to a vehicle and disorderly conduct. Chicago police records show he was arrested in that case on October 16, less than two weeks before Tuesday’s break-ins. His pretrial release in that case was not revoked…