Two employees of a west suburban auto repair business were tied up Tuesday morning when robbers apparently mistook them for employees of the jewelry store in the front of the building.
About 11:50 a.m., a man and a woman armed with rifles entered Technically Automotive at 1905 N. Farnsworth Ave. in unincorporated Aurora Township, where a jewelry store is located in the front of the building. They demanded the employees give them jewelry, a statement from the Kane County Sheriff’s office said.
When the victims said they had no jewelry, the suspects tied them up and forced them into a bathroom at the business. The suspects ran off after taking about $2,000 in cash from one of the victims, police said.
One of the suspects is described as a 30- to 40-year-old black man, 5-foot-10 to 6-foot and about 200 pounds, police said. He was wearing a black baseball hat, white pants, dark shoes, dark-rimmed glasses with curved amber lenses, and gardening gloves, police said.
The other suspect is a black woman between 25 and 35, about 6-foot-2 and 145-150 pounds, police said. She was wearing a dark or black baseball hat, dark hoodie, baggy clothes and had a gold stud piercing in her tongue.
Anyone with information should call sheriff’s police at (630) 232-6840 or provide an anonymous tip at www.kanesheriff.com.
Robbers Aiming for Jewelry Store Strike Auto Repair Store Instead
When the victims said they had no jewelry, the suspects tied them up and forced them into a bathroom at the business
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