Published December 21, 2012, 02:33 PM
Escaped Chicago inmate appears in court
One of two convicted bank robbers who was captured days after a daring escape from a high-rise downtown Chicago federal jail shuffled into a brief court hearing Friday, shackled at the arms and legs.
CHICAGO (AP) — One of two convicted bank robbers who was captured days after a daring escape from a high-rise downtown Chicago federal jail shuffled into a brief court hearing Friday, shackled at the arms and legs.
A federal judge told Joseph “Jose” Banks during the hearing that he is charged with escape. Banks responded that he understood.
The FBI said Banks, 37, was arrested about 11:30 p.m. Thursday, days after he and another inmate somehow broke a large hole into the bottom of a 6-inch window of the Metropolitan Correctional Center, dropped a makeshift rope made of bed sheets out and climbed down about 20 stories to the ground.
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