Woman Robbed at ATM in Evanston; 3 Arrested

EVANSTON, IL - A 41-year-old Evanston woman was withdrawing money from the ATM vestibule at the Bank of America in the 1300 block of Chicago Avenue Tuesday night when she was robbed at gunpoint by a man with a towel over her face, said police, who arrived just as the robbery was ending.

The woman told police she was approached by the man - a 19-year-old Evanston resident - and two others with a gun and that they demanded she withdraw $200 from the ATM around 9:10 p.m.

Police said they noticed the man put his hands in his waistband when he and the woman exited the ATM area. He refused several demands to remove his hands and two police officers took “physical control” of him and found a loaded .410 caliber Taurus revolver when placing him in custody, according to police.

Before police encountered the man, they noticed two other men “standing near an idling vehicle” in the parking lot and walked away on Sherman Avenue when they noticed the officers’ patrol car. They were both located, one a 20-year-old male found at the Dempster Street CTA station and the other a 17-year-old Chicago boy found by a K9 unit on the roof of a building on Sherman Avenue, and arrested.

The car in the parking lot was found to have been reported stolen out of Chicago.

Official charges for the three have not been announced as of Wednesday morning.