Arrest Made In 2022 Jewelery Store Robbery Where Owner Was Shot: OLPD

OAK LAWN, IL — A 20-year-old man is charged in the July 2022 robbery of an Oak Lawn jewelry store that resulted in one of the store owners being shot, police said. Dionte Reed was taken into custody in Indiana and charged with attempted murder and armed robbery.

Reed was one of three men believed to be involved in the takeover robbery of Reichman Jewelers, 4439 W. 95th St., in the middle of the afternoon on July 1, 2022. Police said the three entered the jewelry store with guns drawn and disarmed the security guard. As the robbery continued, the store co-owner, Odyss Tsarouhis, emerged from the back room to see what the commotion was about, one of the robbers shot him twice in the wrist and chest.

The trio proceeded to smash the glass jewelry cases, removed jewelry and fled in a vehicle, police said. Tsarouhis was rushed to the hospital, in critical condition. The jewelry store owner has since recovered from his wounds.

Early last month, Oak Lawn detectives were alerted by the Illinois State Police Forensic Laboratory of a DNA match from evidence recovered in the robbery’s aftermath in July 2022. Reed was identified as a suspect, and detectives obtained arrest warrants in their search for his whereabouts.

Dionte Reed, 20 | Oak Lawn Police Department

Working in conjunction with the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force and Bloomington, IN, police honed in on Reed, who was taken into custody and booked into the Monroe County Jail.

Oak Lawn police went to Indiana to retrieve Reed last Friday. At a pre-detention hearing the next day at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse, Reed was ordered detained by Cook County Judge Ankur Srivastava. Reed is due back in court Aug. 29 in Bridgeview.

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Between the violent robbery and another breakin in 2022, Tsarouhis and his partner, Paul Stein, announced they were closing Reichman’s after 114 years “for the safety of their customers and employees.”

“It’s too dangerous,” Tsarouhis told Patch in 2022. “It’s too crazy out there.”

The partners now operate by appointment only from a small office on Roberts Road.

The investigation is ongoing as Oak Lawn police attempt to locate the other two suspects, who remain at large. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Oak Lawn Police Detective Division at 708-907-4051 or text tips to 708-613-TIPS (8477).