A Chicago man who helped rob an electrical work crew at gunpoint of $25,000 in equipment — while on parole for participating in a $46,000 Prada store heist — was sentenced to eight years in federal prison.
Kahdaffie Green pleaded guilty to interfering with commerce by threat or violence and using a firearm during a crime of violence. U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer sentenced him to a total of 96 months.
The December 6, 2023, daytime robbery unfolded in the 9700 block of South Martin Luther King Drive, where three electrical workers were installing a natural gas pipeline, according to federal prosecutors. Green stayed behind the wheel of a stolen Jeep Cherokee while three accomplices allegedly got out and pointed guns at the workers. Two of them dragged a RIDGID SeeSnake sewer camera and a Digitrak locator box, together worth about $25,000, into the Jeep. Green then drove off with the men and the stolen equipment, prosecutors said…