Armed robber sentenced to 22 years in Boone County

BOONE COUNTY – Boone County State’s Attorney Michelle Courier announced that on May 31 Edgar Escobar-Salcedo, 24, of Harvard, Ill., was sentenced to 22 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for one count of Armed Robbery.

On Sept. 12, 2014 Escobar-Salcedo, entered the Belvidere Tobacco and Liquor Store, with his face covered and while armed with a firearm, and took money from a store clerk by threatening the imminent use of force.