A man caught by police minutes after he allegedly robbed a Rolling Meadows bank will be held without bond, a judge ruled Wednesday.
After he was fired from his job Tuesday, Calvin Earl Brown, 44, of Chicago, entered a Harris Bank branch and handed the teller a note that read, “I have a gun. Give me all your money–or else,” according to his lawyer, Gerardo Gutierrez.
In fact, Brown had no gun, police said. An alert police sergeant who said he saw Brown run from the bank, at Plum Grove Road and Euclid Avenue, caught him as he was pulling out of the parking lot. Brown had the stolen cash and immediately confessed, police said.
Brown tested positive for cocaine, Assistant U.S. Atty. Mark Hersh said.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Morton Denlow set a May 1 preliminary hearing.
Brown went to the bank after he was fired from his job at a plastic molding company in Palatine, Gutierrez said.
“He became despondent,” Gutierrez said. “He didn’t have a job.”
