CHICAGO — A man who robbed a bank on the ground floor of the Aon Center this week lost his phone when he jumped over the bank's counter and later got turned in by his uncle, according to the FBI.
About 8 a.m. Wednesday, Ramses Longstreet — wearing a bright yellow University of Iowa sweatshirt — walked into an Associated Bank at 200 E. Randolph St., and asked a teller for change for a $10 bill, according to an FBI complaint. The teller said he or she couldn't help Longstreet, and he began walking away, the FBI said.
But as the teller went to help another customer, Longstreet turned around, walked back and jumped over the teller counter, the FBI said. The other customer who was there saw a phone fall out of Longstreet's pocket as he jumped the counter and later put it onto a counter.
Longstreet told the teller to "give me all your money" and "fill the bag up" before turning to the other customer and saying, "Don't move. I have a gun," while patting his waist, the FBI said.
The next day, Longstreet's uncle, a retired Chicago Police detective, called the FBI and said he thought his nephew had robbed a bank, the FBI said. Longstreet's uncle said his nephew had come to his home and asked him to store about $2,600 in cash, and he said Longstreet's mother had called him and said someone who works in the building where Longstreet lives told her Longstreet robbed a bank.
Longstreet's uncle "created a ruse" to pick up Longstreet and then took him to FBI Headquarters in Chicago, where the uncle looked at photos from the robbery and said they showed Longstreet, the FBI said. A teller also identified Longstreet in a photo lineup.
The uncle also gave the FBI the $2,600 he'd been given by Longstreet, and agents determined some of the money were "bait bills" that had come from the Associated Bank robbery, the FBI said.
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