Suspect Arrested, Charged in Connection with Loop Bank Robbery

A Chicago man arrested by FBI agents and Chicago Police Department officers shortly after a Tuesday afternoon bank robbery has been charged in federal court in connection with the robbery. The arrest and charge were announced today by Robert J. Holley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Office of the FBI, Zachary T. Fardon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Garry F. McCarthy, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department.

Jamal Genson, 28, was charged in a criminal complaint filed today in U.S. District Court with one count of bank robbery, a felony offense. He appeared this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox, who ordered Genson held pending his next court appearance, which is scheduled for this Friday at 2:00 p.m.

The complaint alleges that an individual, later identified as Genson, robbed the Fifth Third Bank branch located at 1 South Dearborn, Chicago, just after 3:00 p.m. yesterday. According to the complaint, the robber entered the bank and waited in the teller line until called to a teller window. Once at the teller window, the robber passed a demand note to the teller and, after receiving money from the teller, placed the money in his pocket and walked out the bank heading west on Madison Street, according to the complaint. A short time later, FBI agents and CPD officers spotted an individual matching the physical description of the robber and arrested him without incident.

If convicted of the charge filed against him, Genson faces a possible maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

The public is reminded that a criminal complaint is not evidence of guilt and that all defendants in a criminal case are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.