The second of two men charged with last summer’s $68 robbery of a Naperville pizza deliveryman was sentenced Friday to three years in prison.
But Austin P. Brown, 19, of Naperville’s far southeast side, could avoid prison should he be deemed eligible for acceptance into the Illinois Department of Corrections’ “Impact Incarceration Program,” a form of boot camp for first-time criminal offenders.
Brown, of the 2500 block of River Woods Drive, pleaded guilty Friday in DuPage County Circuit Court in Wheaton to a felony charge of robbery stemming from the Aug. 14 crime, according to court records. A companion charge of obstructing identification was dismissed in exchange for his plea, records said.
Judge Liam C. Brennan accepted the plea and sentenced Brown to prison, giving him 125 days of credit toward his sentence for time he spent in jail following his arrest. Brennan also allowed Brown to apply for acceptance into the boot camp program, according to records.
Naperville police arrested Brown and a friend, Steven D. Gaines, after they robbed a Pizza Hut deliveryman at a fourth-floor apartment in the Naper Trails apartment complex, on the 1600 block of Coach Drive.
A police report made part of the court file said Gaines and Brown forcibly took two pizzas, an insulated delivery bag and $68 from the deliveryman before fleeing from the area on foot.
Brown and Gaines were arrested the next day. The deliveryman was not injured during the robbery.
Gaines, 21, of the 1000 block of Lincolnway West in South Bend, Ind., pleaded guilty Oct. 19 to a felony charge of robbery. He, like Brown, was sentenced to three years in prison.
