Armed robbery reported at Berwyn bank

[Bonster]

Armed robbery reported at Berwyn bank

Posted Dec 21, 2009 @ 11:40 AM
Berwyn, IL —

A woman was robbed at gunpoint outside a bank Dec. 15, police said.

Berwyn police officers responded to Fifth Third Bank, 7112 W. Cermak Road, at about 12:30 a.m. Dec. 15. The victim, an employee at Dollar Tree, 7147 W. Cermak Road, told police she was depositing the store's cash at the bank when a man wearing a ski mask and black jacket ran from around the corner of the bank with a rifle, police said.

As the man approached, the victim began running and threw the bag containing $3,500 in the bushes in front of the bank, police said.

The victim got in her car as the suspect approached and pointed the rifle at her face and demanded money. The victim told the suspect she did not have it and pointed out where she threw it. The victim told police the suspect checked the bushes, found the bag containing the money and ran from the scene.

Officers stopped a man who matched the description of the suspect shortly after the robbery, but he was not the suspect.

[NYWREB]

I love that this happened 12/15 and was reported in the life on 12/21. 

[~LL~]

I recall a very, very similar "robbery" happening sometime late last year -- same bank and also an employee of the dollar tree involved.  At the time, I suspected that this "robbery" was prearranged by the DT employee and the "robber"... think about it.  

Here's the story from the Berwynpoliceblotter.com:

Robbed of the day's take

November 2, 2008, 9:36 PM

A 53-year-old woman, manager of the dollar store in Cermak Plaza, told police she was robbed in the parking lot of Fifth Third Bank, 7112 Cermak. The woman said she parked in the west parking lot of the bank, exited her van and pulled out two bags of cash. One bag contained $4,000, the other $233.  The women tucked the bags inside her coat and began to shut the van door when a man grabbed her.  The offender shoved her against the van, grabbed the money and fled on foot northward.  The offender, she said, was a husky six-foot male white, dressed in black.

[Bonster]

I agree, LL.  It reads awfully suspicious.

[Ted]

  http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/berwyn/newsnow/x1679097094/Berwyn-bakerys-cash-reigster-robbed 
 
 
  Berwyn bakery's cash reigster robbed

Staff reports
Berwyn Life
Posted Dec 22, 2009 @ 09:52 AM

  Berwyn, IL — A store on Cermak Road in Berwyn was burglarized Dec. 16, police said. Officers responded to Pierre's Bakery, 6310 W. Cermak Road, at about 8 a.m. Dec. 16. An employee told police he heard a cash register beeping when he arrived at 5:45 a.m. and later found the drawer of the cash register missing, police said.

   The employee found one of the doors of the shop slightly open upon further investigation. Officers checked the video surveillance system, but found no video tape in the machine to record the burglary, police said. Items reported stolen include $150 from the register and $15 from two tip jars near the register.


  http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/berwyn/newsnow/x1689175661/Woman-robbed-while-waitiing-at-Berwyn-bus-stop 
 
  Woman robbed while waitiing at Berwyn bus stop

By Staff reports
Berwyn Life
Posted Dec 22, 2009 @ 03:54 PM

  Berwyn, IL — A woman was robbed while waiting for a bus Dec. 16, police said. Officers responded to a robbery at the intersection of 18th Street and Harlem Avenue at about 6:40 p.m. Dec. 16. The woman told police she was waiting for a bus when three women approached and began to talk with her, police said.

As they talked, the three simultaneously attacked her with closed fists to her head and upper body and took the woman's backpack away, police said. The women took the bag and ran eastbound on 18th Street. Items reported stolen include $60 in cash, two rings, a driver's license and one bank debit card. Police said the debit card was used at a Walgreens in Cicero about two hours after the robbery.

[Diona]

This is getting out of hand.  Now you can't even wait for a friggin bus without being robbed??!?!

I'm glad that my husband & I wait for our bus together in the early AM.  He's a huge guy, nobody is going to mess with us. 

[Ted]

  Stories from today's Trib:

   
  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/west/chi-backpack-taken-w-zone-blottedec23,0,6865584.story  
 
 Berwyn: Woman beaten, robbed of backpack

Tribune staff report
December 23, 2009

 A 39-year-old woman waiting at a bus stop at 18th Street and Harlem Avenue in Berwyn was punched in the head and torso at 6:40 p.m. Dec. 16 by three women who stole her backpack, which contained $60, her driver's license, a debit card and jewelry, police said.  The victim, who was not seriously hurt in the attack, told police the women engaged her in a conversation before striking her and snatching the backpack.


 
  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-berwyn-charges-23dec23,0,1438356.story  
 
   2 Chicagoans charged in fatal Berwyn shooting

Tribune staff report
December 23, 2009

  A man and a woman from Chicago have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 19-year-old man Friday evening in Berwyn. Christopher Rivera, of Berwyn, was shot in the head while walking with his two older brothers in the 2500 block of Cuyler Avenue.

  Ysole Krol, 20, was arrested early Monday at her home in the 3400 block of North Claremont Avenue, police said. Her boyfriend, Sergio Martinez, 19, the shooting suspect, who lives at the same address, turned himself in to Berwyn police Monday night, police said.

 

[Ted]

 
  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/west/chi-carjacking-arrests-w-zone-bljan01,0,1567519.story

  Men from Berwyn, Chicago charged with taking car at Oak Park gas station
   Elmwood Park man injured trying to stop theft of his car

Tribune staff report
January 1, 2010

  An Elmwood Park man was dragged about 40 feet and suffered a broken ankle as he tried to thwart the theft of his car outside an Oak Park gas station about 5 a.m. Saturday in the 6100 block of North Avenue in Oak Park. A Berwyn man and a Chicago man later were arrested and charged in the incident.

  The Elmwood Park man had left his Chevy Caprice unlocked and running when he went into the station. He noticed two men approaching the car and ran out to stop them. As they drove the car away he was dragged before being thrown, breaking an ankle, according to Oak Park Police Cmdr. Len Jorgensen.

Chicago police soon spotted the stolen car and followed it back into Oak Park. The two men inside bailed out of the car and ran but were soon caught after a yard-to-yard search. Nelson O. Pacheco, 34, of the 2100 block of South Highland Avenue in Berwyn was arrested in the 1800 block of South Maple Avenue in Oak Park, and Louis A. Lopez, 18, of 1800 block of West Patterson Avenue in Chicago was arrested in the 800 block of Marengo Avenue in Forest Park. Both men are charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking.

[n01_important]

Left his car running & unlocked?  Jesus Christ, how stupid can you be?

[Ted]

 
  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/ct-x-w-0122-blotter-robbed-at-knifepoint-20100120,0,3354654.story 
 
  Man is robbed at knifepoint

January 22, 2010

   A Berwyn man was robbed at knifepoint of his wallet and $300 by three men wearing ski masks near 16th Street and Euclid Avenue Jan. 12. The 22-year-old victim told police he was walking to a store at about 11:22 a.m. when the men jumped out of a car, waved a knife at him and held his hands behind his back while going through his pockets

[Berwyn Patsy]

I often wonder, what happens if after they go through his pockets, and he's only
got 3 bucks on him??  Do most people carry that much cash at any age, let
alone at  22?  Wonder what store he was headed into?

[EC]

Sounds like some one knew he had that amount of money on him, for whatever reason.

[Crunchie]

If it actually happened, the robbers are pretty stupid. Mugging a young guy at lunchtime in a busy area? Hard to believe, IMO.

[Bonster]

Do most people carry that much cash at any age, let
alone at  22?  Wonder what store he was headed into?

Good question.  Certainly not La Paisita.
Berwyn's Violet Shop to buy $300 worth of bouquets? LOL
Tototlan to get a buttload of flank steak for a party?
$300 worth of vending machine junk at Stryker Lanes?
Paying dues at the Italian American Club?
6 cartons of cigarettes at the Marathon?
I've got it -
Downpayment on a casket at J. Nosek & Sons!

[n01_important]

If it actually happened, the robbers are pretty stupid. Mugging a young guy at lunchtime in a busy area? Hard to believe, IMO.

Well if they got away with it and don't get caught... I wouldn't say it was "stupid".