US Marshals: Second bank robber who escaped federal jail in Chicago captured after manhunt

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

US Marshals: Second bank robber who escaped federal jail in Chicago captured after manhunt

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, January 4, 6:55 PM

CHICAGO — The second of two bank robbers who made a daring escape from a high-rise federal jail in downtown Chicago has been arrested, federal officials said Friday.

Kenneth Conley was captured in the suburb of Palos Hills, according to U.S. Marshals Service spokeswoman Belkis Cantor. Cantor said someone had called Palos Hills police Friday morning to say they had seen and recognized Conley.

Conley fled the Metropolitan Correctional Center last month with Joseph “Jose” Banks, apparently by smashing a hole in a wall at the bottom of a narrow cell window and squeezing through before scaling down about 20 stories using a knotted rope made out of bed sheets.

Banks was arrested without incident two days later at a home on the city’s North Side.

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[frazzled]

1. You can run, but you can't hide

I have to say, it was a daring escape, especially considering the building's seemingly impenetrable windows. But it was a dumb post-escape existence.

This could make a good movie: the first half a classic prison-break nail-biter; the second half a comedy. Don Cheadle and Eddie Murphy, casting call.

[JeffHead]

2. I live in the Chicago area and they have been putting his wanted poster on digital billboards

All over the expressway for weeks. Perhaps that may have contributed to his capture. If so, They've finally found a good use for those damn things. Good on the citizen who turned that creep in.