A 40-year-old man has been charged in connection with a robbery at a Fifth Third Bank on the Southwest Side in the city's McKinley Park neighborhood, officials said today.
yan Mason, whose last known address was on the 1600 block of West 38th Street, was charged Wednesday with one count of bank robbery and was ordered held without bail, officials said.
Mason confessed to the FBI after he was identified by Fifth Third Bank employees at a branch located at 1950 W. 33rd St., according to a federal criminal complaint filed in a Northern District of Illinois court.
A witness affidavit said a man approached a teller's counter shortly before 4 p.m. on Wednesday and asked for change. He then handed the teller a note in all capital letters that read "put the money in an envelope, there are more people around, do not cause a scene or they will come in."
The teller gave the man $823, including bills with pre-recorded serial numbers and a dye pack, according to the affidavit. The teller described the robber as a man with a beard, wearing sunglasses, a brown hat and a brown sweater.
The robber, later identified as Mason, fled the scene, officials said. Another bank employee saw him walking eastbound on 33rd Street toward Archer Avenue after the robbery, records stated.
The employee exited the bank and got the attention of an Illinois State trooper who was parked in a lot near the bank, records stated. The employee told the trooper that the bank had just been robbed and pointed toward the fleeing robber. The trooper notified the Chicago Police Department, which sent out a flash dispatch message.
About 4:20 p.m., an officer found a black backpack on the ground near 3332 S. Archer Ave., about two-tenths of a mile southeast of the bank. A white envelope with red-stained money, two pair of shoes, a brown hat, brown sweater and sunglasses were found near the backpack, records said.
Five minutes later, officers saw a man with no shoes climbing a fence up to the roof of a garage in an alley on the 3300 block of South Hoyne Avenue. Police stopped the man because he had no shoes on and matched the physical description of the robber.
Mason was taken back to the bank where he was identified by two employees as the robber, according to the complaint.
He was arrested and taken to the FBI Chicago Division's headquarters where he admitted he robbed the bank, according to court records.
Mason is scheduled to appear in court again Friday morning.
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