By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News
(CHICAGO) Charges have been filed in a couple of robberies: One in the city and the other in the suburbs.
Feds say John Ballard, 30, faces one count of bank robbery for handing a note to a teller at the bank inside the Jewel-Osco on the 2500 block of North Clybourn, on February 4th, and demanding money with no dye packs or GPS.
Authorities say he threatened to kill the person next to him if he didn’t get what he wanted but then told the teller “I’m sorry” as he was given $700.00.
Ballard, who is homeless was arrested by Chicago Police on March 10, for an unrelated crime and has been ordered detained.
Meantime, Carl Triggs, 44, of Aurora is accused of robbing the Bank of America branch on Ogden Avenue in Naperville, nearly two weeks ago.
It was a tip from someone claiming to be a family friend that led the FBI to Triggs on March 17.
They believes he may be responsible for robberies on January 13 at a U.S. Bank branch in Lombard, and on January 30 at a West Suburban Bank in Darien. He has not been charged with those robberies.
