Chicago-area robber who shot at teller, customer sentenced

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has sentenced a 28-year-old suburban Chicago man to 29 years in prison for firing at and narrowly missing a teller and customer during a 2014 bank robbery.A statement Tuesday from the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago says Carl P. Wilson pocketed $20,000 from the robbery at Orland Park’s First Midwest Bank.

He was arrested nine days later during a traffic stop in his hometown of Joliet. 

Prosecutors say Wilson entered the bank wearing a cloth across his face. He jumped the counter, cursing as he yelled at a teller to hand him the money. 

Wilson pleaded guilty to armed bank robbery, discharging a firearm during a robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm. 

Tuesday’s statement says a Chicago federal judge sentenced Wilson last week.

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