Member of 10-Person Robbery Crew Targeting Chicago Suburbs Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison

CHICAGO — A member of a crew that conspired to commit 11 brazen daytime robberies in the Chicago suburbs has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Between January 2022 and March 2023, Perry Maple, 23, participated directly in three armed robberies of armored trucks and ATMs in Calumet City and Orland Park.

During one armed robbery, Maple drove a stolen car to a bank in a crowded shopping plaza, shoved an ATM technician to the ground, and pointed a gun in the technician’s face as he and his co-defendant stole approximately $155,00 from the ATM.

Maple and his co-defendant committed the violent robbery on a Friday afternoon with innocent bystanders mere feet away. In the other two robberies, Maple acted as a getaway driver. Maple and his co-defendants stole nearly $700,000 during the three robberies.

In June 2024, Maple and 10 other members of the armed robbery crew were charged in federal court in connection with 11 armed robberies of armored trucks, ATMs, and banks. On March 26, 2026, Maple pleaded guilty to federal charges of robbery and armed robbery, and on July 16, 2026, U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman sentenced Maple to 15 years in prison.

Maple’s sentence was announced by Andrew S. Boutros, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Ryan Whalen, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Office of the FBI. The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Elie Zenner and Simar Khera.

“Along with his co-conspirators, defendant repeatedly and violently robbed armed armored truck couriers and ATM technicians at gunpoint,” AUSA Zenner argued in the government’s sentencing memorandum. “Each robbery was a high-stakes, high-reward robbery, and defendant willingly risked getting into a deadly shootout for the chance at hundreds of thousands of dollars in stolen proceeds.”

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