Police have arrested an employee at a Wheaton bank and his father in connection with a robbery there and at a Naperville bank earlier this month.
Louis S. Early, 26, 2200 Cherry Court, Lisle, and his father Louis H. Early, 51, of Dewitt, N.Y., were charged last week with one count each of bank robbery.
The charges stem from the March 18 robbery of a TCF Bank inside the Jewel grocery store at Wheaton’s Danada Square Shopping Center, where the son was an assistant branch manager, police announced Thursday. The FBI says it has also linked the two to the March 9 robbery of Fifth Third Bank, 1311 Ridgeland Ave., Naperville.
Louis H. Early, the father, was arrested March 21 in New York on unrelated state charges. Investigators then tied him to the bank heists, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
The complaint says Louis H. Early admitted to the robberies and told investigators that his son was the get-away driver in the Naperville robbery and helped plan the Wheaton heist. They picked a day and a time when the son would be one of two employees working, the complaint said.
Louis S. Early was arrested Thursday in Lisle.
The complaint says about $9,000 was stolen from the Naperville bank and about $60,000 was stolen from the Wheaton bank.
Louis S. Early, the son, is being held without bond pending his next court appearance. Louis H. Early is in custody in New York pending a transfer to Chicago to face charges.
If convicted, both men face up to 20 years in prison.
