2nd Suspect In 2013 Homewood Bank Robbery Found Guilty

HOMEWOOD, IL -- The second suspect in a Homewood bank robbery from 2013 in which more than $80,000 had been taken while one of the robbers was dressed as a police officer was found guilty by a federal jury on Thursday. The jury found Malcolm Carpenter, 37, of Chicago guilty of bank robbery, violent crime with a gun and unlawful transport of firearms in connection with the Bank of America robbery on Dec. 4, 2013, according to FBI Chicago Media Coordinator Garrett Croon.

Carpenter's guilty finding comes nearly a year after co-defendant Justin Williams was found guilty of bank robbery and violent crime/machine gun in the same case.

Carpenter and Williams were arrested on the day of the robbery following a manhunt conducted by the Homewood Police Department, the FBI and the South Suburban Emergency Response Team.

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According to previous reports, Carpenter walked in to the bank around 10:30 a.m. and asked to speak with a manager so he could open a new corporate bank account. Williams entered the bank shortly after and walked into the manager’s cubical office and pulled out a handgun, saying “get the (expletive) off the phone.”

Carpenter then pulled out his handgun and yelled “this is a robbery, nobody move.” A federal complaint filed the week of the robbery indicates all bank employees were ordered to get to the floor while Carpenter took the manager to the vault and demanded, at gunpoint, that he open it, the complaint reads. Carpenter pulled out a canvas bag and ordered the manager to fill it.

In the process of filling the bag, the manager also tossed in an anti-theft device, unbeknownst to the criminals. As he was doing it, Carpenter was alleged to have said “Don’t take it personal.”

When Carpenter was through with the vault, he moved over to a teller and demanded that she dump her drawer into his bag, the FBI says. “Where’s the rest of it?” was his response.

The complaint indicates the two were taken into custody outside a nearby apartment complex in a gray Volvo, where authorities found a bag of $80,288 in stolen cash and two loaded handguns inside.

Williams was sentenced in September 2016 to a total of 120 months in federal prison.

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