U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation |
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December 5, 2002 Suspect Arrested in Gold Coast Bank Robbery Thomas J. Kneir, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Terry G. Hillard, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and Michael F. Sheehan, Cook County Sheriff, announced today the arrest of HAL R. LIKES, age 41, of Joliet, Illinois. LIKES was arrested yesterday afternoon, without incident, by Chicago Police officers who were responding to the scene of a robbery which occurred at the North Community Bank, located at 2 West Elm Street in Chicago. LIKES was turned over to the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force (VCTF) last night and was charged in a criminal complaint filed today in U.S. District Court in Chicago with one count of bank robbery. The VCTF is comprised of FBI Special Agents and Detectives from the CPD and Cook County Sheriff's Office. According to the complaint, LIKES entered the North Community Bank at approximately 1:00 p.m., approached a teller and demanded that he be given all the money from the teller drawer. LIKES implied that he had a weapon, but no gun was ever seen. After receiving an undetermined amount of money, LIKES left the bank on foot. A bank customer who witnessed the robbery and followed LIKES from the bank, notified arriving CPD officers as to LIKES' location and CPD officers took LIKES into custody. LIKES appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys and was ordered held without bond pending his next scheduled court appearance. Investigation by the VCTF has indicated that LIKES is not the individual dubbed the "Lunchtime Robber". The "Lunchtime Robber" is still at large and is believe responsible for ten robberies of various Chicago Banks. The public is reminded that a complaint is not evidence of guilt and that all defendants in a criminal case are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. |
