CHICAGO - Two men were caught stealing boxes of vodka from a cargo container in a Chicago railyard, according to the Cook County Sheriff's Office.

What we know:

Around 8 a.m. Aug. 27, railroad staff alerted sheriff’s police that two men slipped under a fence near 63rd Street and Michigan Avenue, broke into a shipping container, took three boxes of Tito’s vodka and left.

When officers approached them, the men fled but were caught and taken into custody nearby.

Angel Villegas-Mendez, 30, of Chicago, and Erik Salcedo-Circa, 34, of Chicago, were charged with burglary and misdemeanor counts of damage to railroad property and criminal trespassing of railroad property.

Villegas-Mendez was on probation for a retail theft conviction and on parole for a criminal damage to property conviction

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