Suspected Red Line Robbert arrested

Five robberies happened at or near Marina City

30-Aug-09 – It may be the last stop for the Red Line Robber. Surveillance photos released to the media led to an arrest on Saturday of a suspect in nine bank robberies in Chicago in the past year, including two at the Chase branch at Marina City.

44-year-old Lance P. Dennie, who lives just south of the Red Line station at 95th Street, was arrested Saturday afternoon without incident near his home by a task force comprised of FBI agents, Chicago police detectives, and investigators from the Cook County Sheriff’s Office. A criminal complaint filed last Thursday charges Dennie with just one armed bank robbery, although he is a suspect in the eight other robberies – all of which happened close to the CTA’s Red Line.

In addition to the two robberies of the Chase branch, three other robberies occurred within a few blocks of Marina City. (Left) Surveillance photo from March 10 robbery of Chase branch at Marina City.

According to the criminal complaint, surveillance photos released to the media shortly after the Marina City robbery on March 10 led to Dennie’s arrest. Two Chicago police officers who worked at an unnamed school thought the man in the photos looked like an employee of the school. Investigators obtained a copy of Dennie’s driver’s license and agreed there was a resemblance. Fingerprints from a dye-stained newspaper discarded near one of the robberies “matched fingerprints [taken] from Lance Dennie when he was arrested by Chicago Police Officers in 2008.”

Dennie is currently being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago. He has a detention hearing scheduled for Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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