Nov. 05--A Chicago man already serving prison time for a 2012 home burglary and robbery pled guilty on Wednesday to robbing a Morgan Park bank a few weeks later, according to prosecutors and court records.
Chauncy Stockdale, 28, pled guilty in federal court to robbing a Fifth Third Bank branch, 11850 S. Marshfield Ave., on March 30, 2012. Stockdale is currently serving nine years in prison in connection with a burglary and robbery at an apartment in the 2600 block of West Thorndale Avenue the morning of Feb. 22, 2012, according to court records.
In the bank robbery, Stockdale admitted Wednesday that he stole about $2,598 cash from the Fifth Third bank.
The robbery took place about 10:40 a.m. when Stockdale went up to a teller, pointed what looked like a gun at a teller and told the teller to put up their hands, according to the plea agreement. Stockdale handed the teller a plastic bag and told the teller to fill it with cash, then told the teller to go to the bank vault and open the safe deposit boxes.
The teller told Stockdale the boxes couldn't be opened without customer keys, and then gave Stockdale the cash, according to the agreement.
About five weeks before, Stockdale and two other men had robbed an Arcadia Terrace neighborhood apartment, according to court records. The victim, the brother of a man who lived at the apartment, had been asleep after staying overnight, and was awakened by someone kicking in the front door. Stockdale had pointed a gun at the victim, and the three men stole a Playstation, games and accessories, as well as an envelope filled with cash for the victim's rent, according to court records.
In between the home burglary and robbery and his arrest in August 2012, Stockdale was arrested in early March and early April on separate marijuana-possession charges, but both cases were dropped, according to court records. He was arrested Aug. 28, 2012, after his DNA matched that of DNA found in blood stains at the scene of the home robbery, according to court records.
Stockdale was found guilty in a bench trial in 2013 of aggravated robbery and residential burglary in the case, according to court records. At his sentencing hearing, Stockdale told the court that at the time of the home robbery, "his marriage was troubled, he smoked marijuana, and did things he normally would not have done, but he was attempting to get his life on track," according to an appeals court decision in the case.
Court records do not indicate how authorities connected Stockdale, who most recently lived in the 6300 block of Martin Luther King Dr., to the bank robbery.
U.S. District Court Judge John Robert Blakey is scheduled to sentence Stockdale on Jan. 27, according to prosecutors.
