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| Illinois escapee charged in Ala. bank robbery |
| By Mobile Register |
| Published: 09/12/2003 |
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A recent prison escapee, who had been serving time for nine bank robberies in Illinois, robbed a Tillman's Corner, Ala. bank Tuesday and was nabbed minutes later, authorities said. Agents in the Mobile FBI office said Kevin Patrick Szabo, 39, of Springfield, Ill., was arrested in a subdivision about five miles from the AmSouth Bank branch. No one was injured in the robbery shortly before 11 a.m. or during the police car and foot chase leading to Szabo's arrest in the subdivision. Jim Cochran, a Springfield FBI agent and spokesman, said Szabo walked away from a federal halfway house in Springfield on Aug. 22. An October 1997 story in the Springfield Journal Register newspaper said Szabo's brother, a Sangamon County, Ill., deputy, had turned Szabo in after seeing a bank surveillance photo of him. Cpl. Marcus Young, a Mobile police spokesman, said the suspect used a note to rob the AmSouth Bank. The note, which demanded money, said the man was armed with a pistol, Young said. A Mobile police dispatcher said the suspect did not display a gun inside the bank. Young said a pistol that fires pellets was later found in the car Szabo was driving. The 1993, four-door Oldsmobile that was used as a getaway car is registered in Szabo's name, Young said. The Journal Register story said that Szabo wrote holdup notes on his checkbook register during the string of Illinois bank robberies. The notes told bank tellers he had a gun, although he didn't. A Mobile police dispatcher said the suspect in Tuesday's robbery wrote his holdup note on a check deposit slip taken from his checkbook. Szabo was charged with first-degree robbery, a state charge, and taken to Mobile County Metro Jail. |
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