Crime & Safety
Plainfield Man Charged With Robbing Pizza Delivery Woman
Joliet police used phone records to track down the Plainfield man suspected of carrying out the March 3 holdup, Cmdr. Brian Benton said.
By Karen Sorensen
Joliet police searched reams of phone records to link a Plainfield man to the robbery of a pizza delivery woman nearly five months ago, Cmdr. Brian Benton said Tuesday.
William D. Gage, 18, of 16309 S. Spring Creek Blvd., was charged with aggravated robbery Monday in connection with the 8:15 p.m. March 3 holdup in the 3600 block of Thoroughbred Lane in Joliet, near Cambridge Run Park and Gaylord Road.
Benton said the robbery plan began with a pizza delivery order to an address on the block. No one answered the door when the delivery woman arrived, and she was returning to her car when her boss called to say the customer had phoned him about missing the delivery because he was in the shower, Benton said.
As she went back to the house, she saw three men coming down the block, one of whom told her he had ordered the pizza. Instead of paying for the order, however, they pulled out a gun, took the pizza and pushed her to the ground, taking her keys and cash before fleeing on foot, Benton said.
Investigators obtained a grand jury subpoena to review the pizza business' phone records and isolate the calls linked to the order and the subsequent message about the customer being in the shower, he said.
When they determined Gage was their suspect, they found he was already in the Will County jail on an aggravated battery charge filed by the Plainfield Police Department a day earlier, Benton said. No details on that arrest were available Tuesday.
Police interviewed Gage in the jail, where he made statements in which he "implicated himself" in the robbery, Benton said. It's possible additional arrests may be made in the case.
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