States Attorney
Chicago Man Receives Fourteen Years in Home Invasion
WHEATON - DuPage County State’s Attorney Joseph E. Birkett announced today that Rodrigo Moreno, 21, (d.o.b. 6/7/1985) of 6441 S. Sacremento Avenue, Chicago was sentenced to fourteen years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for his involvement in a September 22, 2005 incident in Oak Brook in which a woman was assaulted by knife-point while parked in the garage of her home.
At approximately 10 a.m. on September 22, 2005, the victim was in her vehicle when Moreno, wearing a stocking cap, reached into her vehicle from the driver’s side with a knife. It is alleged that an accomplice, Gerardo Rodriguez, 22, (d.ob. 7/7/1984) of 6210 S. Francisco, Chicago, joined Moreno in the assault. The victim was taken from her vehicle and ordered to open the door of her home. As she was being led at knife-point to the door of her home, the victim told her assailants that she had left the keys to her home in her vehicle. When one of her assailants went to the vehicle to retrieve her keys, the victim fought off the second man and fled the scene.
“This punishment will keep society safe from Mr. Moreno for a significant amount of time,” commented Birkett. “Hopefully, this sentence will serve as a deterrent to others that this type of violent assault will not be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.”
Judge George Bakalis sentenced Moreno after he entered a plea of guilty to one count of Armed Violence.
Rodriguez’s case is scheduled for a Jury trial December 5, 2006, in front of Judge Bakalis.
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