25-time felon gets 10 years for burglarizing Northwest Side homes

A 25-time convicted felon was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for committing a series of residential burglaries on Chicago’s Northwest Side while on parole for 19 armed robberies from 1991.

Vincente Charriez Colon, 62, pleaded guilty to all three counts and received concurrent six-year sentences for two counts, plus a consecutive four-year sentence for the third. Judge Michael Hood presided over the case.

Charriez was paroled in August 2022 after serving decades in prison for the robberies, many of which involved allegations of kidnapping and home invasion, according to court records. Before those convictions, he served two six-year sentences for residential burglary in 1985.

Prosecutors said Charriez returned to his old habits after he returned to the streets by burglarizing a woman’s home in the 3600 block of North Kedzie on July 26, 2023. Two safes were stolen, containing business licenses, $10,000 in cash, birth certificates, house and car titles, jewelry, and a pistol, according to a criminal complaint filed against him.

Three months later, he allegedly broke into another woman’s home in the 4100 block of North Kolmar and stole a laptop bag. On October 3, 2023, he allegedly slipped into a woman’s home in the 2800 block of North Rutherford and took her purse.

As long as he behaves in prison, Charriez will serve only five of the 10 years sentenced by Judge Hood, with the time further reduced by 582 days of credit earned while wearing an ankle monitor during the case.

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