Crete bank holdupCapture photo aids FBI probe
Crete police released a bank video image of a man who robbed the American National Bank on North Main Street at 11 am Thursday. He fled in a charcoal gray Nissan headed north on Chicago Road after demanding cash from a single teller. The suspect, described as a clean shaven white male 20 to 25, wore dark sunglasses and a white jacket over a black hooded sweatshirt. The FBI joined the investigation, reviewing leads and possible links to other bank robberies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myra Guindon
Crete
FBI
David Wallace
American National Bank
N. Main St
Aan
Wallace
Chicago
American National
Crete Bank
Basile
William
Billy” Dauber
Tocco
Dauber
Jerry Scarpelli
Butch” Petrocelli
Joseph Ferriola
Tuite
Scarpelli
U.S
Lawrence Rosenthal
Robert Doug Hardin
Daubers
Hardin
Nicholas D’andrea
War veteran and wife convicted in Bloom Township drug raid
Marshall Champion, a 63 year old war veteran with Purple Heart and Bronze Stars, and his 67 year old wife Inez were found guilty on drug charges tied to a February 11, 1988 raid at their Miller Road home in Bloom Township. Police seized cocaine valued at about 254000 dollars. Marshall received a 10 year sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Sue Penn
Bloom Township
Marshall Howard Champion
Inez
Miller Road
Miller Woods
Marshall
Park Forest
Ron Wheatley
Marshall Champion
Wheatley
Inez Champion
Drug Enforcement Agency
Park Forest 40 Years Ago This Week Harvest Dance and Local News
A Park Forest 40th anniversary series recalls the Harvest Dance at Lincolnshire Country Club drawing 450 attendees. The Howard Swenson family escaped major injury after a Plymouth skidded on ice and rolled into a ditch near town, totaling the car. Notes include Joliet bus service for shoppers, Buckley’s stance on racial discrimination, Taft Hartley Law, and housing aid, AVC positions, and condensation discussions on metal windows.
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Park Forest
James V. Buckley
Joliet
Chamber of Commerce
Park
Chicago
AVC
Glen Henderson
Forest Blvd
Magne B. Olson
Last witness for defense Lorenzetti held $250000 for Tocco
Closing arguments in Albert Tocco extortion and racketeering trial begin Monday as Carlo Lorenzetti testifies he held $250,000 in cash for Tocco in winter 1988 and that Betty Tocco could retrieve it. Lorenzetti described disbursements to Mrs. Tocco and recalled Tocco’s Athens flight and Rome airport denial.
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Dave Looby
Pete Reynolds
Albert Tocco
Chicago Heights
Tocco
Carlo Lorenzetti
Manhattan
Ill
Carlo
Lorenzetti
Betty
Athens
Greece
FBI
Rome
Italy
Patrick Tuite
Lorizetti
Daytona Beach
Fla
U.S
Dean Polares
East Hazel Crest
Albert
James Basile
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Aman
Ith
Park Forest Public Library
Joel Cunningham
Sauk School
Sharlene Putnam
Daniel Kowalik
Sauk Village
Champion
Katie H. Passarelli
the Star
Homewood-Flossmoor
Hazel Crest-Country Club Hills
Crete University Park
Matteson-Richton Park
Norman A. Rosinski
Lester G. Sons
Nes S. Meidell
Chicago Sun-Times Company
Otto Boulevard
P. O
Illinois
U. S
W. 183Rd Street
Homewood
Walt
Lincoln Mall
Optical
Herzberg Optical
Matteson
Carsons
Tum
Nina
Roseland
Blue Fox Jackets
MAS JF Furries
East 162Nd Street
RT. 6
South Holland
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