INDIANA MAN ARRESTED FOR NORTH SIDE BANK ROBBERY
Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Dana V. Starks, Acting Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department (CPD); and Thomas Dart, Cook County Sheriff announced today the arrest of KENNETH A. CUNNINGHAM, age 39, whose last known address was with relatives in Portage, Indiana. CUNNINGHAM was arrested earlier today, without incident, by members of the Chicago FBI’s Violent Crimes Task Force (VCTF) in northwest Indiana.
CUNNINGHAM was charged in a criminal complaint filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Chicago with the February 15, 2007 robbery of the Chase Bank branch, located at 5134 North Clark Street in Chicago. According to the complaint, members of the VCTF received tips from several viewers of a local television newscast broadcast on September 6 th of this year, during which a bank surveillance photograph of the robber was displayed. Both of these tipsters identified the robber as CUNNINGHAM. Subsequent investigation by the VCTF determined that CUNNINGHAM was released from the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Chicago at 10:00 AM the same day of the robbery, after serving an 87 month sentence for a 1995 bank robbery. According to the complaint, it also appears that CUNNINGHAM was wearing the same clothes issued to him by the MCC during the robbery.
CUNNINGHAM is scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria Valdez in Chicago, later today, at which time he will be formally charged. If convicted of the charges pending against him, CUNNINGHAM faces a possible sentence of up to 20 years incarceration.
The Chicago FBI’s VCTF is comprised of FBI Special Agents, Detectives from the CPD and Investigators from the Cook County Sheriff’s Police Department.
The public is reminded that a 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.
EDITOR’S NOTE: A copy of the complaint filed in this case is available from the Chicago FBI’s press office at (312) 829-1199.
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