A Venezuelan migrant received a seven-year sentence on Thursday after pleading guilty to robbing concertgoers in the Loop following last year’s Lollapalooza, including one victim he seriously injured by beating him with a scooter.
Revelers were heading home after the festival’s final night on August 4, 2024, when 24-year-old Edinson Yanez targeted the crowd in at least two robberies.
Around 11 p.m., Yanez allegedly plowed an electric scooter into a 26-year-old suburban man and stole the victim’s gold chain in the 50 block of East Jackson Boulevard. Prosecutors said Yanez bit the man and beat him with the scooter, breaking two of the victim’s ribs.
While police were speaking with that victim, they learned other CPD officers had detained a suspect who allegedly robbed another man in the 300 block of South Dearborn Street, according to a police report…