Ex-con back in prison after DUI crash

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Updated: August 4, 2011 4:20PM

A 20-year-old Naperville man who was arrested three weeks ago following a drunken, rollover traffic crash has been sent back to prison for violating the terms of his parole for a botched armed robbery.

Eric T. Maschmeier was admitted Sunday into the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, a little more than a year after being paroled for the armed robbery attempt, according to information found on the Illinois Department of Corrections website.

Maschmeier most recently lived on the 800 block of South Julian Street in Naperville’s East Highlands neighborhood. He was convicted of the Nov. 15, 2008, aborted armed robbery of a man outside a condominium complex near 75th Street and Modaff Road in the central part of the city.

A DuPage County Circuit Court judge in 2009 sentenced Maschmeier to six years in prison. He entered prison on Aug. 13 of that year and was paroled on Jan. 13, 2010, after serving five months of his term.

Maschmeier was arrested again at 4:14 a.m. Feb. 9, about 90 minutes after losing control of his white Chevrolet Impala and flipping it into a snowbank south of 75th Street between Fort Hill and Beebe drives.

A witness estimated Maschmeier’s speed at the time to be more than 100 mph, police said. Maschmeier escaped uninjured from the wreckage, as did a female passenger.

Police said Maschmeier fled on foot onto adjacent Three Farms Avenue. He apparently got a friend to give him a ride home, where police found him, determined he had been drinking and arrested him.

Maschmeier, two other men and two juveniles participated in the armed robbery attempt. The victim, then 19, defied the robbers’ orders that he turn over his personal property, and instead used his wireless telephone to call 911.

It could not be learned Monday how much additional prison time Maschmeier might face for violating terms of his parole.