‘North Center Bandit’ Suspect Charged by FBI

CHICAGO, IL - Five banks on Chicago’s North Side have been robbed in similar fashion over the past several months.

Each time, the bandit would come into a bank and hand the teller a note saying “Give me the money or I start hurting people. I have a weapon.” Each time he’s slipped away with money from the teller’s top drawer and after five like incidents was dubbed by the investigators as the “North Center Bandit.”

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Since then several tips have come in, and now the FBI says they have identified the man as 37-year-old Greg Zuercher, according to a DNAinfo Chicago report. Zuercher has been charged with robbing one of the banks, but remains a suspect in the other four.

In all alleged robberies, Zuercher ordered the teller to fill up an envelope with bills from the top drawer.
Zuercher has been identified as the bandit in more than one of the heists.