Chicago Fugitive Caught after Crime Spree

(CBS)  Authorities have captured an escaped prisoner in West Chicago, after he overpowered two law enforcement officers, carjacked two drivers and robbed the bank in his daylong crime spree, reports CBS station WBBM in Chicago.

The U.S. Marshal's office confirmed that Robert Maday, 39, was captured in West Chicago, the station reports.

West Chicago police saw a car that matched the description of a Volkswagen Jetta Maday had carjacked earlier. There was a short pursuit that ended in a crash at Route 59 and James Avenue, WBBM reported.

The Jetta hit a light pole and ended up wrecked in a grove of trees.

Maday complained of back pain after the crash, and was being attended to by paramedics while in custody as of 12:24 p.m.

A few hours earlier, Maday committed an armed robbery of a First American Bank, the station reported.

FBI agent Paul Block said Friday morning that during the robbery, Maday identified himself as the man who had been on the news the day before. He had robbed the same bank previously.

Before that, Maday carjacked a vehicle on Hassell Road in the northwest suburb sometime around 7 a.m. Friday. Police said he approached a female dental assistant who was pulling into work and forced her out of her car at gunpoint, WBBM reported.

The dental assistant first saw him sitting on the curb wearing blue jeans, a green T-shirt, and a white baseball cap with black writing on it. She later identified him as Maday from photos.

The dental assistant wasn't hurt, but was shaken up, WBBM reported. Her car was the Jetta that Maday later crashed.

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[gunownerdan]

It's a real shame he wasn't stopped by one of his carjacking victims!
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[wrexall9]

I'll bet the cops find a way to hire him as a security specialist.

[Questionews]

You just don't see that kind of ambition & motivation in people these days. Escape jail, pull a car-jacking & rob a bank within 48 hours! The dude's a dynamo!

[cuda12345]

wow that's somthing

[DaVicar6]

This guy's better than David Blaine. They should freeze him in a block of ice and give him his own TV special.

[missme4]

If I bust otta jail and rob bank the last place I would want to eat would be McDonald's or Taco Bell. That's as bad as prison food!. I'd head northwest to the Hardee's in South Beloit. Now that's REAL food!

[DaVicar6]

"the last place I would want to eat would be McDonald's or Taco Bell. That's as bad as prison food!"


Having been in prison before, I would have to disagree. Taco bell is not only good for the gastro-technical valve, it provides an endless source of free, natural gas.