A man who used what he said was an HIV-tainted syringe to steal more than $2,600 worth of drugs from a Naperville CVS was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison, DuPage County court records said.
Sanjay Malhotra, 50, of Chicago, found guilty of armed robbery, a Class X felony, in the Nov. 15, 2016, holdup of the 1299 E. Ogden Ave. store, was also sentenced by Judge George J. Bakalis to a concurrent eight-year term for committing a similar robbery Nov. 14 at a CVS in Niles.
In the Naperville case, Malhotra and an accomplice, Janine I. Gurgone, 32, also of Chicago, threatened store employees “with a hypodermic needle alleged to be infected with HIV,” the virus that causes AIDS, police said. They made off with $2,607 worth of over-the-counter medication.
Niles police said the pair made a similar threat when taking $600 worth of over-the-counter drugs from the shelves of the CVS on North Milwaukee Avenue.
Gurgone was found guilty of Class X armed robbery in the Naperville crime in April. Bakalis sentenced her to 12 years in prison and three years of mandatory supervised release, court records said.
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