Cary bank robber gets 18 months

A 36-year Crystal Lake woman who pleaded guilty to the May 2010 bank robbery of a Chase Bank in Cary will serve 18 months in prison and will also repay the money she stole.

A federal judge in Rockford on Wednesday also ordered Silk P. Lumpkins to serve three years of supervised release after her prison sentence. The first six months of the release will be spent in home confinement with electronic monitoring.

Lumpkins faced up to 20 years in prison after she admitted that at about 2:20 p.m. on May 26, 2010, she entered the Chase Bank at 300 Northwest Hwy. wearing heavy makeup and disguised in a long blond wig with a baseball cap and handed a teller a note that said: “If you don’t want to die today, give me all your money. You have 30 seconds to do this.”

According to the plea agreement, the teller handed over almost $5,900 to Lumpkins, who put the money in a blue “Chase” deposit bag and left.

Lumpkins was arrested on June 2, 2010, after an investigation by the Rockford Office of the FBI, the Fox River Grove Police Department and the Cary Police Department.