We’ve covered plenty of stories about people who get arrested again while on parole, but Gilberto “Big O” Valensuela might have set a new speed record.
The 36-year-old, a three-time convicted auto thief, was released from the Lincoln Correctional Center on Friday. By Saturday morning, he was back in custody, arrested in Albany Park for residential burglary while still carrying his freshly issued parole paperwork, according to a Chicago police report.
Around 9:30 a.m. Saturday, CPD responded to a burglary in progress call in the 4100 block of North Kimball Avenue. Officers found a broken window, blood around the front door handle, and a large metal pipe on the porch, prosecutors said in a detention filing. As one of the home’s residents came downstairs to let the police in, she spotted Valensuela hiding in a dark corner at the bottom of the staircase, according to the filing….