CHICAGO — This man was arrested on a bus not long after robbing a Loop bank Monday afternoon, federal authorities said.
Emmanuel Lewis Hart Jr. robbed the First American Bank at 33 W. Monroe St. at about 2 p.m. Monday only to be arrested about an hour later trying to get away on a South Side bus, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Prosecutors said Hart left the following note with a bank teller during the robbery:
I WANT 4 - $4000 PACK OF $100.00 BILLS
DON'T MAKE ME HURT ANYONE
I HAVE FULL BLOWN AIDS AND DON'T GIVE A F***
I WILL BUST THIS GUN!
NO ALARM DYE PACKS OR TRACKING DEVISE IN MONEY
Hart then told the bank teller to "hurry up and hand me the money." The teller gave him $4,318, including four "bait bills" and a tracking device police and the FBI used to track Hart down, prosecutors said.
Hart took a Red Line train to a South Side stop, where he got off the train and boarded a Halsted Street bus, prosecutors said. Police tracked him on the Halsted bus between 64th and 65th streets, where they stopped the bus and arrested Hart.
Prosecutors said Wednesday that Hart was sentenced to seven years in prison for three bank robberies in 1999, was convicted in 2005 for trying to escape, was sentenced to another seven years in prison for bank robbery in 2007 and served one year in prison after trying to escape again in 2013.
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