A man who received a 3-year federal prison sentence for robbing a bank in the Loop in 2021 is now accused of robbing 3 banks in the Loop on Monday morning, although two of those robberies failed.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged 62-year-old Timothy Brown with robbing the Fifth Third Bank at 2 South LaSalle Street, capping what investigators describe as a 24-minute stretch in which Brown unsuccessfully tried to rob two other banks inside the Chicago Board of Trade Building before finally getting away with about $920 at the third location.
Brown is well known to Chicago police and the FBI. In 2021, officers used a chain of private and city surveillance cameras to track a Loop bank robber from 55 East Monroe Street to a homeless encampment in Chinatown, where they found Brown with seven $100 bills in his pockets and medical records linking him to the crime. He pleaded guilty in that case and received a 3-year sentence in federal prison…