This is a federal case, so I may be missing the State's Attorney's angle. If the cat gets close to 80 years it is a waste of time and I would prefer they spend the time working another case that has some merit. This guy isn't going anywhere.

I bet somebody said that the first time he was put in jail.

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What cat? We are talking about the 2 prisoners that escaped from a jail in Chicago.

Did they find the second yet?

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The second cat?

Not that I know of.

Negative pittmike. Someguy hating on Chris Walken word choice. That hurts.

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Made it all the way to Palos. So close.

This guy sounds even dumber than the first one. Police were called to check out a suspicious man walking down the street with a cane, glasses, and dark overcoat/hat, pretending to be an old man???

Wonder if he will also have the escape charge dropped...maybe that was done intentionally to give this guy a reason to give himself up.

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I still cant get over this guy only went as far as Palos Hills after pulling off that escape.

By Nick Swedberg, Field Editor

A former Tinley Park man who escaped from federal custody in December was sentenced Wednesday to prison after pleading guilty to robbing a Homewood bank.

Kenneth Conley, 39, received the maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison for the May 13, 2011 robbery of the MB Financial Bank, located inside a Homewood grocery store, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago.

Conley pleaded guilty to bank robbery on Oct. 29, 2012. He and another convicted bank robber, Jose Banks, 37, broke out of the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a skyscraper prison in downtown Chicago, on Dec. 18. Authorities found knotted bed sheets hanging from a cell window.

Their escape sparked a manhunt in the south suburbs. Officers from multiple departments were seen searching for the pair in Tinley Park and New Lenox. Banks was arrested a few days later, on Dec. 21, in Chicago.

Officers caught Conley on Jan. 4 when he tried to disguise himself as an elderly man while hiding out in Palos Hills, police said. He was indicted for the escape later that month.

U.S. District Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan ruled that Conley was a career offender and showed he had not accepted responsibility by obstructing justice after the guilty plea, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago. Conley also must pay $3,969 in restitution to the bank.

Conley reportedly showed the butt of a what appeared to be a gun during the 2011 robbery, and threatened to shoot a bank teller in the head, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. It turned out not to be a real gun.

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Sounds like a deep cut from the forthcoming Pearl Jam album.

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