When prosecutors asked a Cook County judge to detain Jacob Sickel as a public safety threat after charging him with three armed robberies, she sent him home on an ankle monitor instead. Two years later, Sickel pleaded guilty Thursday, and thanks to the credit he earned while wearing that monitor, he has roughly 10 months left to serve behind bars.
Sickel, 22, of Brookfield, was sentenced to six years in prison on each of three counts of armed robbery, to be served concurrently. But by the time he stood in court Thursday, he had already accumulated 788 days of sentence credit on the monitor, and after applying the state’s standard 50 percent sentence reduction to his six-year term, roughly 308 days remain.
The robberies occurred on a Monday morning in February 2024. Prosecutors said Sickel and an unidentified accomplice worked their way across the South Side for two hours, targeting people sitting alone in parked vehicles. One man wore a black mask, the other white.
Starting around 5 a.m., the pair held a gun to a woman as she sat in her car in the 6300 block of South Mozart and demanded her valuables, prosecutors said. A short time later, they robbed a man in the 6900 block of South Pulaski. Around 7 a.m., they took an iPad from someone in the 3000 block of East 88th Street…