FBI: 2nd man convicted in 2013 Homewood bank holdup

The second of two men charged with the December 2013 robbery of a Homewood bank that involved a police-ordered evacuation of a nearby apartment complex has been convicted, according to the FBI.

A federal jury on Thursday convicted Malcolm Carpenter, 37, of Chicago, of bank robbery, violent crime with a gun and unlawful transport of firearms, according to the bureau.

Another man, Justin Williams, of Calumet Park, was convicted last year and sentenced in September to 120 months in prison, according to the bureau.

The two were apprehended a few hours after robbing the Bank of America branch in Cherry Creek Plaza, southwest of 183rd Street and Governors Highway.

Police surrounded an apartment complex the two were seen running toward after the robbery, and authorities cleared out tenants and questioned them. About four hours after the holdup, police found the two men, more than $80,000 in cash and two handguns used in the robbery.

The two entered the bank at about 10:30 a.m. Dec. 4, 2013, and one of them told the teller he wanted to open a corporate bank account, according to an FBI affidavit that was filed in the case. A second man walked to a cubicle where the branch manager was on the phone and pointed a semi-automatic handgun at him, and the first man also pulled out a gun and yelled "this is a robbery, nobody move," according to the affidavit.

Employees were told to get down on the floor and, at the point of a gun, the manager was told to open the bank vault, according to the FBI. He was handed a canvas bag and told to fill it, and the cash in a teller drawer was also dumped into the bag, according to the affidavit.

As the manager was filling the bag, one of the robbers told him "don't take it personal," according to the affidavit.

An employee, when the robbery began, was on the phone with a Bank of America employee at a branch in Oak Lawn, and that Oak Lawn employee contacted police, according to the affidavit.

Police and SWAT personnel surrounded a nearby apartment complex, and police at one point noticed a car in the parking lot with heavily fogged windows, which Carpenter and Williams were in, according to the affidavit.

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