Chicago pair charged after Lombard pharmacy theft and high-speed chas…

A Chicago man and woman are charged in connection with a high-speed chase after a burglary Wednesday at a Walgreens in Lombard.

Kionna Kemp, 23, of the 700 block of Kilbourn Avenue, is charged with two counts of aggravated fleeing and eluding. Devan Flax, 19, of the 2800 block of Ridgeway Avenue, is charged with one count of burglary.

Bail was set Thursday at $100,000 for Flax and $25,000 for Kemp.

According to a news release from the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office, Lombard police were called at 1:11 p.m. Wednesday to the Walgreens store at 309 W. St. Charles Road for a burglary in which Flax jumped the pharmacy counter, broke into a cabinet and stole about 8,000 tablets of Xanax, hydrocodone, acetaminophen and codeine before fleeing.

While checking the area for suspects, police attempted to stop a green Jeep driven by Kemp, who disobeyed several stop signs and reached speeds in excess of 95 mph while fleeing southbound…