(WBBM NEWSRADIO) – A 25-year-old Calumet City man has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for robbing a west suburban cell phone store at gunpoint in 2019, prosecutors announced.
Denzel Furance pleaded guilty last summer to one count of armed robbery with a firearm. Prosecutors say he held up a Sprint store in Wheaton on Nov. 8, 2019 and restrained three employees before making off with an estimated $40,000 worth of merchandise.
Furance was apprehended the next day and has been detained ever since, authorities say. His nearly quarter-century prison sentence was handed down Tuesday in DuPage County Circuit Court. Prosecutors had asked for a 40-year sentence, DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said.
“With their hands and feet bound and their eyes and mouths covered with duct tape, I cannot even begin to imagine the terror these innocent employees must have felt,” Berlin said in a prepared statement.
“Violent gun crimes have no place in society.”
Furance’s co-defendant is slated to appear in court later this month, officials said.
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