State Crime Reports

MCC Escapee Joseph Banks Sentenced To 36 Years In Federal Prison For Armed Bank Robberies

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2014.  A Chicago man who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in December 2012, just five days after he was convicted of armed robbery of two banks and attempting to rob two others in 2007 and 2008, was sentenced today to 36 years in federal prison.  Approximately $547,000 stolen in the two robberies remains missing.

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JOSEPH BANKS, also known as “Jose Banks,” 39, “intimidated and terrified” employees and bystanders at each of…

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