A career criminal walked out of the federal correctional center in downtown Chicago last week after serving a 96-month term for bank robbery and robbed another bank that very afternoon, prosecutors say. Major McCoy, 42, allegedly admitted to robbing the PNC Bank, 1231 North Wells Street, during an FBI interview, adding that he lost $150 of the bank’s cash before police arrested him when a crack dealer ripped him off.
Back in January 2019, Chicago police arrested McCoy as he climbed into a taxi after robbing the Chase Bank at 230 West Grand in River North.
Two bank tellers told investigators that McCoy handed them a note that said something to the effect of “I have a bomb and gun. 20,000. Big bills.” An FBI agent stated in a criminal complaint that arresting officers found large bundles of cash totaling about $9,300 in the leg of McCoy’s sweatpants…