Crime & Safety
Liquor Store Owner Determined to Find Robbers
A year after he was robbed of about $150,000, the owner of Extra Value Liquors offers a large reward for the full return of the stolen money.
When a liquor store was robbed a year ago, it wasn’t an employee who was robbed. And, it wasn’t a small amount of cash taken.
Last September, the owner of was robbed of approximately $150,000 in cash as he was leaving the business, the owner, Basim A. Esmail said in an email.
never disclosed the sum taken in the robbery, nor disclosed that it was the business’s owner who was robbed.
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Esmail is offering a reward of $10,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction of those involved in the robbery. He offering a reward of $40,000 if the full amount is returned, Esmail said. Naperville Crimestoppers is offering $1,000 for information leading to an arrest in the matter.
The reward is being offered in part because of the large sum of money that was lost, Esmail said in an email.
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“Another reason is I am determined to find the armed robbers,” he said.
He is even more determined to find the culprits because he said he was recently told the case likely will not be solved, though the police said they have not closed it. He is critical of the police and said he believes they might have solved the case within 24 hours of it happening, if they had exerted more effort.
The Naperville police have said in a news release earlier this week that they continue to investigate the robbery and seek information from the public a year after the Sept. 13, 2010 robbery, which took place about 1:30 a.m.
At the time of the incident, it was that an older blue Chevrolet Caprice pulled up and a man got out of the vehicle, robbing the store’s employee. Police say today that the vehicle was a dark, four-door sedan. The vehicle had two occupants, one who was described as about 5-feet-11-inches tall and weighing about 200 pounds. He was wearing a dark hoodie sweatshirt and possibly a nylon ski mask, according to Naperville police.
Anyone with information in the incident is asked to call Naperville Crimestoppers at 1-630-420-6006. A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered by Crimestoppers.
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