A Venezuelan migrant was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to robbing concertgoers in the Loop during last year’s Lollapalooza, including one victim who he seriously injured by beating him with a scooter.
On August 4, 2024, revelers were on their way home from the festival’s final night when 24-year-old Edinson Yanez targeted them in at least two robberies.
Around 11 p.m., Yanez allegedly crashed an electric scooter into a 26-year-old suburban man and took his gold chain in the 50 block of East Jackson Boulevard. Prosecutors claimed Yanez bit the man and assaulted him with the scooter, breaking two of his ribs…