The FBI arrested one of two bank robbers in Chicago
One of the two bank robbers who made a daring escape from a high-rise federal prison in Chicago were arrested after a manhunt day long, an FBI spokeswoman said Friday.
Special Agent Joan Hyde said Joseph "Jose" Banks was captured without incident in Chicago. Agents and officers of Violent Crimes Task Force of the Chicago FBI, along with officers from the Chicago Police Department, arrested Banks on 11:30 pm Thursday Hyde told The Associated Press in an e-mail.
Banks, 37, and Conley, 38, somehow broke a large hole in the bottom of a 6-inch wide screen of the Metropolitan Correctional Center, made a makeshift rope made of sheets and climbed down about 20 stories to the ground.
The escape went unnoticed for hours of surveillance video from a nearby street with the two hop into a taxi shortly before 03:00 on Tuesday. She had changed out of their prison issued orange jumpsuits.
If the system has discovered the two men had gone around 7:00, what was found was a carefully planned escape, including clothing and sheets shaped to look like a body under blankets on the beds, bars inside a mattress and even fake bars cells.
Law enforcement still many unanswered questions, including how men could gather about 200 yards from the plates and what they could have used to break through the wall of the federal facility.
Banks, known as Second-Hand Bandit because he wore clothes during his robberies, was sentenced last week to rob two banks and attempting to rob two others. Authorities say he stole nearly $ 600,000, and most of those still missing.
During the trial, he had to be restrained because he threatened to walk out of the courtroom. He acted as his own lawyer and verbally sparred with the prosecutor, sometimes argue that U.S. law does not apply to him because he was a sovereign citizen of a group that was above state and federal laws.
Conley pleaded guilty last October to rob a Homewood Bank last year of nearly $ 4,000. Conley, who at the time worked at a suburban strip club, wearing a jacket and tie when he robbed the bank and had a gun stuffed in his waistband.
One of the two bank robbers who made a daring escape from a high-rise federal prison in Chicago were arrested after a manhunt day long, an FBI spokeswoman said Friday.
Special Agent Joan Hyde said Joseph "Jose" Banks was captured without incident in Chicago. Agents and officers of Violent Crimes Task Force of the Chicago FBI, along with officers from the Chicago Police Department, arrested Banks on 11:30 pm Thursday Hyde told The Associated Press in an e-mail.
Banks, 37, and Conley, 38, somehow broke a large hole in the bottom of a 6-inch wide screen of the Metropolitan Correctional Center, made a makeshift rope made of sheets and climbed down about 20 stories to the ground.
The escape went unnoticed for hours of surveillance video from a nearby street with the two hop into a taxi shortly before 03:00 on Tuesday. She had changed out of their prison issued orange jumpsuits.
If the system has discovered the two men had gone around 7:00, what was found was a carefully planned escape, including clothing and sheets shaped to look like a body under blankets on the beds, bars inside a mattress and even fake bars cells.
Law enforcement still many unanswered questions, including how men could gather about 200 yards from the plates and what they could have used to break through the wall of the federal facility.
Banks, known as Second-Hand Bandit because he wore clothes during his robberies, was sentenced last week to rob two banks and attempting to rob two others. Authorities say he stole nearly $ 600,000, and most of those still missing.
During the trial, he had to be restrained because he threatened to walk out of the courtroom. He acted as his own lawyer and verbally sparred with the prosecutor, sometimes argue that U.S. law does not apply to him because he was a sovereign citizen of a group that was above state and federal laws.
Conley pleaded guilty last October to rob a Homewood Bank last year of nearly $ 4,000. Conley, who at the time worked at a suburban strip club, wearing a jacket and tie when he robbed the bank and had a gun stuffed in his waistband.
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