Feb. 28 (UPI) — A Chicago man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of robbing a bank only two months after being let out of prison where he was serving time for committing previous bank robberies, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
Del Evans Jr., 40, of Chicago, was sentenced to 188 months in prison in light of his 2024 guilty plea, the Justice Department said. Evans admitted to robbing Sanborn Savings bank in January 2024, by handing the teller a note, taking money and fleeing on foot.
“Law enforcement officers identified Evans through surveillance footage and located his residence. Law enforcement converged on the residence … and Evans was called out. He peacefully surrendered,” the Justice Department said in the release. ” At the time of the instant bank robbery, Evans was on supervised release for a 2014 bank robbery spree.”
Evans admitted to the crime, described the clothing he was wearing and threw the robbery note in the trash at his residence.
Evans has been convicted of four armed robberies, four unarmed robberies and an attempted robbery in addition to his latest conviction. He had previously been convicted of bank robberies in 2008 and again in 2014, and had also been charged with an escape from prison.
In addition to the 15 year sentence he received for the 2024 robbery, he was also sentenced to two additional years for violating the provisions of his supervised release and ordered to pay $5,408 in restitution. Following the latest sentence, he will be placed on three years of supervised release.
There is no parole in the federal court system, the Justice Department said.
