{"id":273556,"date":"2010-02-03T21:43:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T02:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=15798"},"modified":"2010-02-03T21:43:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T02:43:36","slug":"20000-reward-offered-in-credit-union-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/273556","title":{"rendered":"$20,000 reward offered in credit-union robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15806\" title=\"community-trust-credit-union-robbery\" src=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/community-trust-credit-union-robbery-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" \/>The FBI and Gurnee Police announced a reward of up to $20,000 Wednesday for information leading to identification and arrest of the man who shot at police and robbed the Community Trust Credit Union.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI is offering the reward &#8220;primarily because of the violent nature of the crime,&#8221; said Ross Rice, spokesman from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re hoping (the reward) attracts media and the public&#8217;s attention,&#8221; Rice said. <span id=\"more-15798\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Witnesses described the bandit as an black man, 6 feet to 6-feet, 2-inches tall. The suspect, who acted alone in the Jan. 28 robbery, was a wearing all black clothing and a mask.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the man forced entry at 7 p.m. when the credit union on Route 41 in Gurnee was closing. He used plastic zip ties to bind the hands of employees.<\/p>\n<p>After he was unable to open the credit union vault, he fled and spotted an officer who was responding to the robbery, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>He shot at the officer before running behind a nearby building and possibly to a waiting vehicle. The officer was not injured, the news release stated.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked call the FBI at (312) 421-6700.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a title=\"$20,000 reward offered in credit-union robbery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/story\/?id=356557&amp;src=143\"  rel='nofollow'>DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cy4G_nr-9KvWmG5rC5uA4KjoT9c\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cy4G_nr-9KvWmG5rC5uA4KjoT9c\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cy4G_nr-9KvWmG5rC5uA4KjoT9c\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cy4G_nr-9KvWmG5rC5uA4KjoT9c\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=7dxsaDwws9Y:xdmQABDMQtY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=7dxsaDwws9Y:xdmQABDMQtY:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=7dxsaDwws9Y:xdmQABDMQtY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=7dxsaDwws9Y:xdmQABDMQtY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/7dxsaDwws9Y\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI and Gurnee Police announced a reward of up to $20,000 Wednesday for information leading to identification and arrest of the man who shot at police and robbed the Community Trust Credit Union. The FBI is offering the reward &#8220;primarily because of the violent nature of the crime,&#8221; said Ross Rice, spokesman from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}