CHICAGO — The FBI says a man on supervised release for bank robbery is responsible for robbing two banks on the city’s Far North Side this month. Jeffrey Sulaski, 64, will be arraigned at the federal courthouse downtown this afternoon.
All together, Sulaski is suspected of robbing at least 17 banks in at least four states over the past 24 years. One of his previous defense attorneys claimed that the bank robberies fueled Sulaski’s gambling addiction.
Wearing a bucket hat and implying that he had a gun, Sulaski tried to rob Huntington Bank inside Jewel-Osco, 6430 West Irving Park Road, around 5 p.m. on August 2, according to the FBI.
The next day, around 11:45 a.m., he successfully robbed Associated Bank inside Jewel-Osco at 1764 West Howard, a federal indictment said. Federal agents estimate he got away with $1,404.
In 2011, Sulaski was accused of “extorting” $65,000 from Chase Bank, 2501 North Clark, in Lincoln Park by threatening staff members over the phone. A grand jury also indicted him that year on charges of robbing TCF Bank, 4250 North Lincoln, of $1,974; robbing TCF Bank at 3570 North Elston of about $3,500; robbing TCF Bank at 1341 North Paulina of $298 during one holdup and $887 in a second robbery.
At the time of the 2011 crimes, Sulaski was on supervised release for a flurry of bank robberies in Ohio.
