Downtown Elburn bank robbed at gunpoint

Elburn police are investigating an armed robbery Tuesday afternoon at Fifth Third Bank, 415 S. Main St.

About 1:45 p.m., a man entered the branch wielding a small, silver-plated automatic handgun and demanded a black backpack be filled with cash, said Police Chief Jim Linane.

A bank employee gave the man the cash from one of the drawers. The man then told employees not to move and ran east from the scene with approximately $1,400 in cash, police said.

Police dogs tracked the subject to a location on First Street, but police think that's where the man entered a waiting vehicle and fled the area.

Police initially thought a pickup truck exiting drive-up lanes on the south side of the bank may have been involved in the robbery, but later determined the occupants were bank customers who completed a transaction in the drive-up lane.

However, occupants of the pickup did see the man running from the bank.

No injuries were reported and there were no other customers inside the bank at the time of the robbery, police said.

The robber was described as between 5-foot-3 and 5-foot-8 and wearing a brown, hooded sweatshirt with yellow lettering. He appeared to be between 20 and 30 years old, Linane said.

Law enforcement officials from the Kane County Sheriff's Department, the Kane County Forest Preserve District and the Campton Hills Police Department assisted in the initial response. Elburn police evidence technicians and Kane County sheriff's officials are investigating.