Four face home invasion, mob action charges in Whiteside County

STERLING – Four people are charged with home invasion and mob action after a man was beaten in an apartment.

Siblings Shantasia B. Adams, 20, and Cedric J. Adams, 18, and Cody R. Hall, 19, all of Sterling, and Patrick Brown, 18, of Chicago, were in Whiteside County Jail on Tuesday on $100,000 bond each. Hall also is charged with aggravated battery.

According to police, the four suspects broke into an apartment in the 900 block of West Fourth Street, which was occupied by a 25-year-old woman and her 19-year-old boyfriend, around 3:50 p.m. March 7.

The man was taken to CGH Medical Center, where he was treated and released.

Hall was arrested shortly before 4 p.m. March 12 at his home; the three others turned themselves in around noon Monday at Sterling Police Department, Officer Jake Reul said.