A sledgehammer-and-crowbar burglary at a suburban Addison gaming cafe turned into a high-speed chase that topped 100 mph before ending in a crash near the Eisenhower Expressway, according to DuPage County prosecutors. Four Chicago men — Keonte Adams, 20; Dajuan Johnson, 24; Kyronte McCondichie, 20; and Daryl Nesbit, 19 — now face a long list of felony charges including armed violence and aggravated fleeing and eluding after the early-morning raid on Maria’s Gaming Cafe.
Investigators allege five people, four of them armed, smashed their way into Maria’s Gaming Cafe at 40 E. Lake St., making off with $13,847 in cash from the machines, according to Fox 32 Chicago. Officers watching the area as part of an investigation into recent burglaries targeting gaming businesses spotted a stolen black Dodge Durango and a stolen white BMW pull into the cafe’s parking lot around 4:30 a.m., per the seed reporting from CBS Chicago. The two vehicles were then seen traveling together westbound on Lake Street near Bruce Avenue before the pursuit began.
Spike Strips, a Swap of Cars and a Chase Toward Villa Park
Police deployed spike strips to disable the BMW, and its occupants abandoned the car to pile into the already-crowded Durango, which kept fleeing, according to Fox 32 Chicago’s video coverage of the chase. Villa Park police joined the pursuit along North Avenue, where the Durango allegedly topped speeds of more than 100 mph, the station reports. The chase eventually reached the Eisenhower Expressway near 25th Avenue, where Maywood, Bellwood and Broadview meet, before the SUV crashed.
Several people ran from the wrecked Durango and scattered on foot, crossing the expressway into a nearby Bellwood neighborhood. Accounts of exactly how many suspects fled and were caught differ: Fox 32’s report on the crash says several people ran from the scene, while ABC7 Chicago reported that seven suspects ran off after the crash and five people were taken into custody. WGN-TV, by contrast, reported that authorities took four people into custody after the group crossed into Bellwood. Officers ultimately arrested Adams, Johnson, McCondichie and Nesbit following a pursuit that involved K-9 units and a drone, per the CBS Chicago account.
Guns, Tools and a Cash Box Recovered From the Vehicles
Searches of the two vehicles turned up a substantial arsenal and burglary gear. Police recovered three loaded guns from the Durango — two Glock handguns and a Zastava AK-style firearm — along with a sledgehammer, a crowbar and a cash box, according to the CBS Chicago report. Two more guns and a sledgehammer were found in the abandoned BMW. DuPage County prosecutors allege the four accused men caused more than $100,000 in damage to the business during the break-in, according to the CBS Chicago report.
All four defendants have been charged with armed violence, unlawful possession of a weapon or machine gun, burglary, possession of a stolen motor vehicle, criminal damage to property and aggravated fleeing and eluding, according to WGN-TV. The men made their first court appearance last Friday, and a DuPage County judge granted prosecutors’ motion to deny pretrial release for all four, ordering them held in jail while they await trial, per Fox 32’s report. They are scheduled to return to court on Nov. 23.
Part of a Wider Wave Hitting Illinois Gaming Businesses
The Addison burglary was the second reported at Maria’s Gaming Cafe since May and came amid a string of commercial burglaries along the village’s Lake Street corridor, according to ABC7 Chicago. It fits a troubling statewide pattern: the Illinois Gaming Board had logged 502 burglaries of video-gaming establishments as of June 22, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. That followed 473 such burglaries in 2025, up from 358 in 2024, with more than 100 Illinois municipalities hit and many locations targeted more than once, the paper reported.
Nearly 50 of this year’s heists involved thefts of at least $10,000, with thieves making off with more than $1.5 million total, per the same Sun-Times analysis, while 2025 alone saw more than $2.7 million stolen statewide. More than 50 regional law-enforcement investigators have formed a task force to probe gaming-machine thefts across county lines, the Chicago Tribune reported. Investigators believe the same crew may be responsible for a string of gambling-machine burglaries across the Chicago suburbs, according to CBS News Chicago, with authorities describing a roughly dozen-member Chicago-based crew that hits businesses quickly and typically flees in stolen vehicles, per the Tribune’s account. Similar sledgehammer attacks have struck a Wheeling Gas-N-Wash, a Green Oaks gas station and the Chill House restaurant in Frankfort in recent months, according to CBS News Chicago and the Tribune.
