Nov. 22--Another Chicago man was arrested in connection with a "crash-and-grab" burglary after investigators said they identified him using DNA from blood left in a stolen minivan that crashed into a Best Buy storefront in January.
Santez Yerger, 28, was charged with felony burglary Saturday in Cook County bond court after being arrested Thursday. He is accused of being one of a group of burglars who hit the Best Buy store at 2650 N. Clark St. on Jan. 4 and made off with electronics worth more than $11,000.
The group took computers and tablets before driving off in another vehicle, according to Tribune reports.
Yerger lives on the 6800 block of South Ada Street on the South Side, according to court records. Investigators identified him using DNA from blood left on the deployed air bag of the minivan. He also was wanted on three outstanding burglary warrants in Chicago, Aurora and Iroquois, court records show.
Yerger is unemployed and has two children, according to court records. He was ordered held on $250,000 bail by Judge Adam D. Bourgeois Jr.
The Best Buy burglary was one of a string of crash-and-grab episodes in late 2014 and early 2015. Similar burglaries happened at a Southwest Side pawn shop, the Neiman Marcus store on North Michigan Avenue and a Louis Vuitton store at Oakbrook Center, among other locations, according to Tribune reports.
Jawon Sellers, of Englewood, was arrested in March in connection with the Best Buy burglary, according to Tribune reports.
gbookwalter@tribpub.com
