FBI uses GPS to find Evanston bank robbery suspect
The FBI says a robbery suspect managed to get away with cash from an Evanston bank, but he also got something he hadn’t bargained for — a GPS tracking device.
Lawrence Brown is being held without bond at downtown Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center. He’s charged with one count of bank robbery.
The FBI alleges that Brown made off with about $4,000 from a Bank of America branch in Evanston, just north of Chicago, last week.
He fled on foot and walked out of sight from witnesses.
The FBI says Evanston police officers learned that a tracking device had been included with the money allegedly taken by Brown. They used the signal emitted by the device to track him to Chicago.
It wasn’t immediately clear who Brown’s attorney is.
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