The Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — An Indiana man was charged Wednesday with robbing a bank on Chicago’s North Side in February, just hours after he was released from prison for a bank robbery conviction, the FBI said.
Kenneth A. Cunningham, 39, was arrested Wednesday in Portage, Ind., while showing up for his first day of work at a restaurant, according to FBI spokesman Ross Rice. U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria Valdez denied him bail when he later appeared in Dirksen Federal Courthouse on the bank robbery charge.
After a TV station earlier this month broadcast a surveillance photo from the Feb. 15 holdup at the Chase Bank, viewers contacted police and identified Cunningham as the robber, according to the FBI. Cunningham had been released from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago that same February morning and was still wearing the same clothes at the time of the holdup in the 5100 block of North Clark Street, Rice said. He fled with about $6,180.
Cunningham had been sentenced to 87 months in prison for a 1995 Chicago bank robbery, Ross said.
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