Published on Wednesday, April 30, 2008

2 men arrested after allegedly robbing delivery driver

By ALAN EDRINN

Cesario Williams

An NIU student and a Chicago resident were arrested after allegedly robbing a Shelly’s delivery driver.

At 3:15 a.m. Saturday, DeKalb Police arrested Cesario Williams, 18, of DeKalb, and Malik Dunlap, 19, of Chicago after they lured the driver into an empty apartment and took his money and food, police say.

Williams, a representative for Grant South Hall Council’s Believing in Culture, and Dunlap placed an order at Shelly’s Restaurant and had it delivered to a vacant apartment they had broken into at 820 N. Annie Glidden Road, said Sgt. Bob Redel of the DeKalb Police Department. When the driver entered the apartment, Williams and Dunlap closed the door so he couldn’t leave and told the driver to give them the money and the food. After taking the money and food, they ran out the back door, Redel said.

The driver did not require medical attention and Redel declined to comment on how Williams and Dunlap were found after the robbery.

Williams and Dunlap are both charged with robbery, burglary and criminal damage to property. They were both taken to DeKalb County Jail pending $75,000 bond.

Redel said there were two or three other people waiting in a car nearby who were part of the robbery and may face charges later in the investigation.

“It was obviously planned out,” he said.

Redel said Williams and Dunlap are not suspected in a previous robbery early Friday morning where an NIU student was robbed by three people in the 800 block of N. Annie Glidden Road.