A 33-year-old Chicago woman is in
federal custody after being arrested in connection with the robbery yesterday
of the Popular Community Bank branch at 7181 West Irving Park Road in Chicago.
According to court filings, Teshawnda F. Herbert entered the bank around noon,
presented a demand note to a teller, and fled on foot after being given money
from the teller’s drawer. She was apprehended by alert Chicago Police
Department officers shortly after the robbery.
Herbert, of 4009 N. Leamington, Chicago,
was charged in a criminal complaint filed today in U.S. District Court in
Chicago with one count of bank robbery, a felony offense. She appeared this
morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sidney I. Schenkier, at which time she was
formally charged and ordered held pending her next court appearance. She is
scheduled to be back in court on Friday, August 31.
The public is reminded that a complaint
is not evidence of guilt and that all defendants in a criminal case are
presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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