Lester Warfield, 60, was charged in a two-count indictment made public this week with escape and attempted bank robbery, court records show. He’s been in custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center since his arrest in September and will have a detention hearing Wednesday, records show.
According to the charges, Warfield escaped on Aug. 30 from the Salvation Army halfway house at 825 N. Christiana Ave., where he was being held after serving most of a 12½-year prison sentence for robbing a bank in the Portage Park neighborhood in 2012.Six days after he disappeared, Warfield tried to rob a Chase Bank branch on Pulaski Road in the city’s Avondale neighborhood, according to the charges.
According to a prosecution filing in his previous case, Warfield was a “Supreme Universal Five-Star Elite King and Supreme Chief” of the Unknown Vice Lords street gang with a criminal history dating back decades, including convictions for attempted murder, home invasion, armed robbery, residential burglary, aggravated battery and possession of a weapon by a felon.Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox each afternoon.
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