Man sentenced for burglarizing Vermilion County businesses

VERMILION COUNTY, Ill. (WAND) - A man was sentenced to 11 years in prison for burglarizing Vermilion County businesses.

On June 3, Cameron Cudney, formerly of Westville, pleaded guilty to two counts of Burglary.

The prosecution said that on January 23, 2025 around 3:40 a.m., the

Vermilion County Sheriff’s Department responded to a business in Oakwood for an active burglar alarm. Deputies saw signs of forced entry, damage to a gaming room door and boot prints in the snow leading to and from the business. Surveillance video showed the suspect, wearing a ski mask, brown boots and carrying a pry bar, tampering with a power box, entering the building and breaking the glass of the door to the gaming room. The video showed

the suspect removing a cash box with a pry bar, exiting the business, and running away. Video evidence also showed a red pickup truck near the scene around the time of the burglary.

The prosecution also said that on February 2, 2025, the Vermilion County Sheriff’s Department responded to a business on Henning Road in Danville for a burglar alarm. Deputies saw a boot print on a door, which appeared to have been kicked in and had damage to the door frame. Inside the business deputies found damage to a gaming machine and signs that an exterior surveillance video had been tampered with. Surveillance video showed a suspect wearing clothing similar to the suspect seen in the surveillance video of the Oakwood burglary.

The video showed the suspect climb on top of the gaming machine and

repeatedly jump on the machine until the front of the machine broke open. The suspect is seen in the video using a bar to strike the machine and break the cash box free. The suspect is then seen leaving with the cash box.

Investigators identified Cameron Cudney as the suspect through surveillance images and the FLOCK system. Evidence showed that the same red pickup truck was near both crime scenes. Cudney was on parole at the time of the burglaries, and agents with the Illinois Department of Corrections confirmed he had been using the red pickup truck connected to the investigations.

Cudney was also arrested in 2020 for a series of vehicle burglaries in Vermilion County.