route 59 and 126.....bank robbery / police standoff
06-17-2003, 03:53 PM
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route 59 and 126.....bank robbery / police standoff
is anyone watching this right now? its on CLTV and the Fox news channel. the guy is in the bank holding a whole bunch of people hostage right now. they already had a little shoot - out with him.
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Plainfield hostage situation resolved
Tribune staff reports
Published June 17, 2003, 5:28 PM CDT
A gunman holed up for several hours in a Plainfield bank released his last hostage and surrendered to authorities late this afternoon.
"The hostages are all out, and the defendant is in custody. There were no injuries to anyone," Will County State's Atty. Jeff Tomczak said at a news conference in the parking lot of the First National Bank of Illinois, at 135th Street and Illinois Highway 59, shortly after the incident ended.
FBI agents were at the scene collecting evidence, and federal authorities will prosecute the case against the suspect, Tomczak said.
The alleged gunman, a Romeoville resident, is expected to appear Wednesday before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Chicago.
Tomczak commended the Joliet Police Department Special Weapons and Tactics Team, which handled hostage negotiations "and conducted itself in a manner where no one was hurt here."
The incident started shortly before 1 p.m. when a man entered the bank, brandished a 9 mm handgun and demanded money, according to authorities. A bank employee triggered a silent alarm, and police went to the scene.
"Officers responded to that location and upon arrival observed a subject inside with a gun," said Plainfield Police Chief Donald Bennett. "The officers backed off, and we called in the Joliet SWAT team."
The suspect took two men and two women hostage and sealed himself inside the first-floor lobby of the building. Joliet police negotiators made contact with the man, whom police described as agitated and fearful for his life.
The talks were tense and difficult, police said. During the course of the afternoon, the man also apparently made telephone calls to acquaintances and to the news media before police cut off phone lines except to negotiators.
The suspect first released an elderly man who was suffering an asthma attack, police said. Later, he released a female bank employee, then a third hostage, and finally, the bank manager.
At about 4:30 p.m., the gunman obeyed police orders to walk out of the bank's south entrance with his hands raised, and then to lie face down on the ground as officers approached to take him into custody.
The man had mentioned a hand grenade during negotiations with police, and officers combed the bank looking for anything or anyone left inside, police said. Officers also were searching in the neighborhood for a possible getaway car or accomplice.
The bank is in a strip mall in a newer area of Plainfield. Police evacuated the mall and closed streets for several blocks around as the incident progressed.
A command center was set up outside the bank. Units of the Plainfield, Joliet, Shorewood, Crestwood and Crest Hill police departments were at the scene, as were members of the Will County sheriff's department, Illinois State Police and FBI.
CLTV and the Associated Press contributed to this story.
Copyright © 2003, Chicago Tribune
Tribune staff reports
Published June 17, 2003, 5:28 PM CDT
A gunman holed up for several hours in a Plainfield bank released his last hostage and surrendered to authorities late this afternoon.
"The hostages are all out, and the defendant is in custody. There were no injuries to anyone," Will County State's Atty. Jeff Tomczak said at a news conference in the parking lot of the First National Bank of Illinois, at 135th Street and Illinois Highway 59, shortly after the incident ended.
FBI agents were at the scene collecting evidence, and federal authorities will prosecute the case against the suspect, Tomczak said.
The alleged gunman, a Romeoville resident, is expected to appear Wednesday before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Chicago.
Tomczak commended the Joliet Police Department Special Weapons and Tactics Team, which handled hostage negotiations "and conducted itself in a manner where no one was hurt here."
The incident started shortly before 1 p.m. when a man entered the bank, brandished a 9 mm handgun and demanded money, according to authorities. A bank employee triggered a silent alarm, and police went to the scene.
"Officers responded to that location and upon arrival observed a subject inside with a gun," said Plainfield Police Chief Donald Bennett. "The officers backed off, and we called in the Joliet SWAT team."
The suspect took two men and two women hostage and sealed himself inside the first-floor lobby of the building. Joliet police negotiators made contact with the man, whom police described as agitated and fearful for his life.
The talks were tense and difficult, police said. During the course of the afternoon, the man also apparently made telephone calls to acquaintances and to the news media before police cut off phone lines except to negotiators.
The suspect first released an elderly man who was suffering an asthma attack, police said. Later, he released a female bank employee, then a third hostage, and finally, the bank manager.
At about 4:30 p.m., the gunman obeyed police orders to walk out of the bank's south entrance with his hands raised, and then to lie face down on the ground as officers approached to take him into custody.
The man had mentioned a hand grenade during negotiations with police, and officers combed the bank looking for anything or anyone left inside, police said. Officers also were searching in the neighborhood for a possible getaway car or accomplice.
The bank is in a strip mall in a newer area of Plainfield. Police evacuated the mall and closed streets for several blocks around as the incident progressed.
A command center was set up outside the bank. Units of the Plainfield, Joliet, Shorewood, Crestwood and Crest Hill police departments were at the scene, as were members of the Will County sheriff's department, Illinois State Police and FBI.
CLTV and the Associated Press contributed to this story.
Copyright © 2003, Chicago Tribune
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