CHARGES FILED IN “TIME BANDIT” CASE

Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was joined today by representatives from numerous suburban police departments in announcing the arrest of an individual in the serial bank robbery investigation of the “Time Bandit”.

SCOTT C. CARLBERG, age 44, of 9860 West 153rd Street in Orland Park, was arrested earlier today, without incident, by FBI Special Agents in the vicinity of 13100 South La Grange Road in Palos Township. CARLBERG was charged in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago with one count of Bank Robbery, which is a felony offense. 
     
The complaint charges CARLBERG with the February 2, 2007 robbery of the TCF Bank branch, located at 2400 East Lincoln Highway in New Lenox, Illinois. According to the complaint, CARLBERG was linked to this robbery by forensic evidence. Specifically, items related to the robbery that had been left in a self storage locker contained DNA samples that were subsequently matched with DNA profiles from CARLBERG, which were on file with the FBI. Additionally, two “bait bills” whose serial numbers were prerecorded, were also discovered among the items recovered from the storage locker. The storage locker and its contents were eventually traced to CARLBERG.

CARLBERG appeared before Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan in Chicago within the past hour, at which time he was formally charged. CARLBERG was ordered held without bond, pending his next scheduled court appearance and will be housed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Chicago. If convicted of the charge filed against him, CARLBERG faces a possible sentence of up to twenty (20) years incarceration. 

The “Time Bandit” is a serial bank robber believed responsible for the armed take-over robbery of at least eleven (11) banks in the south and southwest suburbs of Chicago dating to January of 2005. The assistance of at least twenty (20) Chicago area law enforcement agencies was crucial to the successful resolution of this matter and in announcing this arrest, Mr. Grant expresses his appreciation to all of the police departments who participated in this investigation.

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:  Additional copies of the attached wanted flyer or the criminal complaint filed in this case are available from the Chicago FBI’s press office at (312) 829-1199.