By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News
(CHICAGO) A man suspected of almost a dozen bank robberies in 2014 and 2015 is now charged with a Chicago heist.
He walked into a bank and tried to blend in with the customers, the FBI says that is why they nicknamed 32-year old Corey Collier the “Play-Along Bandit.”
Collier has been charged with one count of bank robbery in connection with a hit on the BMO Harris Bank branch on West 95th Street in Chicago, in December 2014.
The following month, Collier was arrested after, authorities say, he robbed an Anchor Bank in Monona, Wisconsin. A Wisconsin jury convicted him of the December 2015 robbery, and at his sentencing hearing, Collier admitted to that robbery, which was very similar to several Illinois robberies.
Feds suspect Collier of robbing eight other banks in Chicago between October 2014 and January 2015, though he has only been charged in Illinois with the one robbery.
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