Appellate court affirms life sentence for man in Addison armed robbery
Illinois' Second District Appellate Court has affirmed the conviction of a Northlake man that led to a lifelong prison sentence in 2015.
Luis Moreta, 46, was convicted of armed robbery with a firearm on Dec. 5, 2014, after a jury ruled he stole $3,700 from a man he met on Craigslist.
Because that was his third violent conviction, DuPage County Judge John Kinsella sentenced Moreta as a habitual criminal to a term of natural life in prison.
On Dec. 2, 2011, the victim drove to meet Moreta in the parking lot of an Addison apartment complex on the 600 block of Meadow Boulevard to purchase a black Suzuki GSXR motorcycle he had seen advertised by Moreta on Craigslist.
After meeting one of Moreta's accomplices, the victim and two friends were escorted to the back of the parking lot where Moreta and another man, both with their faces covered and wearing hooded sweatshirts , jumped out of a van and held guns to their heads. Moreta and his acco...