FBI: Man Robs Third Bank In A Month
A man robbed a Belmont Gardens neighborhood bank Thursday afternoon in his third heist in about a month, according to the FBI.
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A man robbed a Belmont Gardens neighborhood bank Thursday afternoon in his third heist in about a month, according to the FBI.
A woman wearing a fake mustache robbed a bank Wednesday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
James Cagney, 20, walked into the Bank of America branch at 1080 S. Elmhurst Road about 3 p.m. Tuesday and handed a teller a deposit slip that said "all money in the bag. Be quiet or be killed," according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
The FBI believes it has arrested and charged a North Side woman as the so-called "Uptown Beach Bandit" for a robbery last month.
The woman dubbed the "Uptown Beach Bandit," who robbed three banks last month on the North Side, has been captured, according to the FBI.
Two Chicago men held up a southwest suburban bank at gunpoint last week, making off with more than $114,000 before they were arrested the next day.
The first suspect held bank employees and customers at gunpoint in the lobby, while the second suspect forced an employee to open the vault.
A woman suspected of robbing two TCF Bank branches this month on the North Side struck again Saturday afternoon, this time in the Uptown neighborhood.
The robbery took place about 10:56 a.m. at the PNC Bank branch at 4400 N. Broadway, according to the FBI. The suspect entered the bank, gave the teller a note demanding money, and fled when the teller complied, according to Chicago Police.
A man with prominent tattoos on his arm robbed a bank in the North Side Uptown neighborhood Wednesday morning.
About 4:45 p.m., the man walked into the bank in the 800 block of West 63rd Street and gave the teller a note demanding money in a bag, police said. He then made off with an unknown amount of money.
A man has been charged with robbing a bank Monday afternoon in north suburban Waukegan that was also robbed exactly one week before.
Authorities are searching for a man who is suspected of robbing the same bank in Waukegan twice in one week.
Police are searching for a man they say robbed a bank in Waukegan Monday afternoon.
Two separate bank robberies were reported Monday in west suburban Oak Park.
The man entered the Fifth Third Bank branch at 601 S. Clark St. at 9:36 a.m. with a knife and demanded cash, according to police and the FBI. He left the bank with an undisclosed amount of money, police said.
The suspect entered the bank at 601 S. Clark St. about 1:15 p.m. and gave the teller a note implying he had a weapon, according to Chicago Police and the FBI.
A man robbed a northwest suburban bank Monday by grabbing a handful of cash that a teller had been counting.
The FBI is looking for information about a south suburban bank robbery on Friday afternoon.
A serial bank robber known as the "Bandage Bandit" struck his seventh bank on Tuesday afternoon, this time in the Little Village neighborhood.
The bank attached to an Ultra Foods at 601 W. 14th St. was robbed Tuesday at 10:47 a.m., according to the FBI.
Roderick V. Burton, 48, was taken into federal custody Tuesday, according to a statement from the FBI.
A man walked into the Chase Bank branch at 300 S. Michigan and demanded an unspecified amount of cash, according to the FBI, which described it as a "non-takeover robbery."
Authorities reportedly were able to zero in on the suspect through a GPS device that had been placed in a bag of money he took from First American Bank, 33 W. Monroe.
The FBI has increased the reward to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of a serial bank robber dubbed the "Bandage Bandit," after he struck for the fifth time Saturday.
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