WEST TOWN — A spelling-challenged man has been sentenced to 37 months in prison for an attempted bank robbery last year on West Grand Avenue.
According to the FBI, Isidro Meraz walked into the South Central Bank, 1959 W. Grand Ave., on April 28, 2016, and handed a teller a note reading, "I want 20,000 I dont have nonthing to lose I kill some one if you try some thing dumd."
When the teller handed the note, written on an envelope, to another teller, Meraz said, "I need that money now. I'm not kidding," the FBI said.
After the first teller told him that amount of money wasn't in the drawer, Meraz fled.
Miraz, 23, of Chicago, was caught a short time later on Grand Avenue.
"I f---ed up. I just needed the money," he told police.
