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By Rosemary Regina Sobol and Kim Geiger

Tribune reporters

5:20 p.m. CDT, June 8, 2014

Three men were charged Sunday with two armed robberies last week in the Austin and Bridgeport neighborhood.

The first incident happened early Wednesday afternoon in the 4900 block of West Quincy Street on the city's West Side, when the three allegedly robbed a 23-year-old man of cash and an iPhone, police said. A little later that day, in the 200 block of West 31st Street in the city's Bridgeport neighborhood, they robbed a 31-year-old man of his wallet and iPhone, police said.

Police found the three Saturday after one of the victims related to officers that the Find My iPhone app had pinned his stolen phone to a two block portion of South Dearborn Street near Williams Park, according to police reports.

Officers toured the Williams Park area and located the three men seated in a Dodge Caravan, but the van fled the scene. Officers gave chase and the van was eventually involved in an auto accident at 43rd and Wentworth, according to police reports. The men fled the van, sparking a foot chase that ended in the 4200 block of  South Wentworth Avenue at 12:20 p.m., police said.

Antione Golden, 26, 7900 block of South Langley Avenue; Darnell Russ, 25, of the 6400 block of King Drive; and Lekendrick C. Williams, 27, of the 1500 block of South Central Park Avenue, appeared together in bond court on Sunday.

Russ and Williams were charged with armed robbery while Golden was charged with two counts of armed robbery and fleeing and attempting to elude and also several misdemeanors -- failure to reduce speed, driving on a sidewalk, negligent driving, operating a vehicle without insurance and driving without a license, police said.

A judge set bail at $200,000 for Golden and $100,000 each for Russ and Williams.