Crime & Safety
Armed Robber Stalks, Threatens Woman
He allegedly followed her by car in traffic and said 'I know you have $1,000 from the coin shop' before displaying a weapon, police said. An arrest is merely an accusation and not evidence of a conviction.
Peter Frauenhoffer, 29 of Des Plaines has been charged with armed robbery after allegedly following a woman from a coin shop and threatening her last Thursday at about 3:25 p.m.
Niles police said the victim, a 58-year-old Mount Prospect woman, noticed a car tail-gating her starting around the 9000 block of Golf Road as she drove eastward.
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She pulled into a parking lot in the 8200 block of Golf in Niles and did not see the offender's black SUV.
While she was sitting in her car, Frauenhoffer, displaying a large metal file, approached her, according to the report. Police said he threatened her with physical harm, saying, “I know you have at least $1,000 from the coin shop.”
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Police said Frauenhoffer may have followed the woman from a coin shop in Des Plaines to the parking lot in Niles.
The woman gave the offender $300 and he fled in his vehicle. The woman provided police with its license plate number, and police took him into custody at his residence in Wheeling just after 9:15 p.m.
Niles police contacted the Cook County State’s Attorney's Office and Assistant States Attorney Sianis approved one count of armed robbery, a Class X felony.
The victim was not injured.
The offense has a mandatory minimum sentence of 6-30 years in the Department of Corrections without change of probation upon conviction.
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