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AO 9l (Rev. l1l1 1) Criminal Complaint AUSA Charles W Mulane 312 469-6042

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS V
EASTERN DIVISION
ILED
MAR I 2017
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CASE NUMBER:
v.

EMMANUEL LEWIS HART LTCR L7L

CRIMINAL COMPI,AINT
IilAGISTRATE J.UDOI SCHENIflER
I, the complainant in this case, state that the following is true to the best of my knowledge
and belief.
On or about March 20, 2017, at Chicago, Illinois, in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern
Division, the defendant violated:
Code Section Offense Description

Title18, United States Code, Section by intimidation, took from the person and
2113(a) presence of another any other thing of value
belonging to, and in the care, custody, control,
management, and possession of, any bank,
namely, First American Bank, located at 33 W.
Monroe, Chicago, Illinois

This criminal complaint is based upon these facts:

x Continued on the attached sheet.

MICHAEL J. CK
Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI)

Sworn to before me and signed in my presence.

Date: March2L.20L7
udge's signature

City and state: Chicago.Illinois SIDNEY I. SCHENKIER. U.S. Magistrate Judge

Printed name and Title
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS

AT'FIDAVIT

I, MICIIAEL J. LOVERNICK, being duly sworn, state as follows:

L. I am a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I have

been so employed since November 2012. My current responsibilities include the

investigation of violent crimes, including, among others, kidnapping, bank robbery,

and the apprehension of violent fugitives.

2. This affidavit is submitted in support of a criminal complaint alleging

that EMMANUEL LEWIS HART has violated Title 18, United States Code, Section

2113(a). Because this affidavit is being submitted for the limited purpose of
establishing probable cause in support of a criminal complaint charging HART with

bank robbery, I have not included each and every fact known to me concerning this

investigation. I have set forth only the facts that I believe are necessary to establish

probable cause to believe that the defendant committed the offense alleged in the

complaint.

3. This affidavit is based on my personal knowledge, information provided

to me by other law enforcement agents, conversations I have had with others who

have knowledge of the events and circumstances described herein, interwiews of bank

employees and other witnesses, review of documents provided by bank personnel and

other witnesses, and review of the bank's video surveillance system.

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FACTS SUPPORTING PROBABLE CAUSE

The Robbery

4. On or about March 20, 20L7, at approximately 2:06 p.m., the First

American Bank located at 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois (the "Bank"), was

robbed by an individual, later identified (as described below) as FIART. Based on the

Bank's records and a post-robbery audit of the teller drawers at the Bank, $4,3L8.00

in U.S. currency was taken from the Bank.

5. Based on Bank surveillance footage, as well as information provided by

Bank personnel, on or about March 20,20L7 , at approximately 2:06 p.m., a black male

with a beard (the "Robber") entered the Bank and approached a Bank Teller.

6. According to the Bank Teller, the Robber handed the Bank Teller a

folded note, which the Bank Teller opened. The note was left at the bank and

recovered by the FBI. The note stated the following:

I WANT 4 - $4000 PACK OF $100.00 BILLS

DON'T MAKE ME HURT ANYONE

I IIAVE FULL BLOWN AIDS AND DON'T GIVE A FUCK

I WILL BUST THIS GUN!

NO ALARM DYE PACKS OR TRACKING DEVISE IN MONEY

7. According to the Bank Teller, the following events then occurred. The

Robber told the Bank Teller, "Hurry up and hand me the money." The Bank Teller

collected money from the teller drawer, which included a hidden tracking device, and

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gave it to the Robber. The Robber took the money and fled the Bank, walking east

on Monroe Street.

8. According to the Bank Teller, the Robber was a male, black,

approximately 5'10 tall, medium build, late 30s or early 40s, wearing a dark hat,

sunglasses, and dark colored clothing.

The Location and Arrest of Hart

9. Following the above-described robbery of First American Bank, the

Chicago Police Department ("CPD") and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI")

accessed tracking information for the hidden tracking device included in the U.S.

currency taken by the Robber. The location coordinates led law enforcement on a

path south from downtown Chicago to South Halsted Street, in between 64th and

65th streets.

1-0. CPD temporarily stopped a CTA bus because the tracking coordinates

and signal indicated that the tracking device was inside the bus. While CPD and FBI

searched for the tracking device inside the bus, they saw an individual matching the

physical description of the Robber. CPD and FBI noticed that the subject was

wearing a black watch with a silver inner ring on the face of the watch on his left

hand. This watch appeared similar to the watch worn by the Robber, captured in
surveillance footage from the bank robbery, including the following still:
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11. CPD and FBI detained the individual, later identified as IIART, for

further investigation. For officer safety, law enforcement conducted a pat down of

HART. During the pat down, law enforcement discovered what appeared to be a

bulky object in IIART's front pant pocket, which, when removed, was a large amount

of U.S. currency, including the hidden tracking device taken by the Robber. TIART

was taken into custody.

L2. Law enforcement counted the U.S. cun'ency recovered from HART and

it totaled $+,3tS.00. During a review of the serial numbers of the U.S. currency, law

enforcement identified four "bait bills" taken during the robbery. Specifically, the

serial numbers of those bait bills, provided by First American Bank to the FBI

following the robbery, matched four of the bills in HART's possession at the time he

was detained. According to Bank personnel, based on the Bank's records and a post-

robbery audit of the teller drawers at the Bank, $4,31"8.00 in U.S. currency was taken

from the Bank during the robbery.

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13. CPD officers and FBI agents transported IIART back to the Bank for

possible identification. CPD officers and./or FBI agents asked the Bank Teller to look

at the individual in their custody. The Bank Teller stated that the individual
matched the height and build of the Robber. The Bank Teller stated he/she was 85Vo

sure that the individual presented by CPDIFBI was the Robber.

L4. During this investigation, I obtained and reviewed surveillance

photographs of the bank robbery. In the photographs, the individual was wearing

dark clothing, a dark hat, dark glasses, and black shoes with a distinctive arch in the

mid-sole. When apprehended, TIART was wearing similar looking pants, shoes, and

the watch described above.l Based on all the features I observed in the photographs

and observed seeing HART in person, the person in the photographs appears to be

the same EMMANUEL LEWIS HART that was identified on the CTA bus, and taken

to the Bank for identification. The following still is included as one example:

1The Robber was wearing a black jacket as shown in the surveillance photos. When HART
was apprehended, he was wearing a gray zip-up sweater and no winter jacket.

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Hart's Preu ious C onu ictr,on s

15. According a law enforcement database and court records, fIART's

criminal history includes, but is not limited to, a July 1999 conviction for three bank

robberies for which he was sentenced to 84 months'imprisonment, a July 2005

conviction for escape from a confinement facility, a November 2007 conviction for

bank robbery, for which he was sentenced to 86 months'imprisonment, and a June

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2013 conviction for escape from a confinement facility, for which he was sentenced

to L2 months'and L day of imprisonment.

16. According to personnel from the Bank, the deposits of the Bank were

insured by the FDIC at the time of the robbery on March 20,20L7.

CONCLUSTON

17. Based on the above information, f respectfully submit that there is

probable cause to believe that the robbery of the First American Bank located at 33

West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois, in violation of Title 18, United States Code,

Section 2113(a), was committed by EMMANUEL HART, JR. on March 20,2017.

FURTHER AFFIANT SAYETH NOT.

MICIIAEL J. LOVERNICK
Special Agent, Federal Bureau of
Investigation

to before me on March 2t,2017.

United States Magistrate Judge