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Sep 24, 2025

MURDERS, MAYHEM & MALFEASANCE

ISSUE № 1024 — 09-24-25

<> PULL QUOTE: ‘Put the $ in the cup, no dye pack, [sic] don’t call police.’

-Ryan Hicks’ alleged note he handed over to a bank teller before threatening her life if she didn’t fill his Stanley cup with cash.

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▀ Bandit Busted Robbing Bank Using… Stanley Cup (Sterling, IL)

A TOUGH ALLEGEDLY took a bank for thousands using a sippy cup.

Ryan Hicks, 37, was captured on CCTV back at around 11 a.m. on July 5 shaking down a Community State Bank branch on East Main Street.

The hooded perp allegedly stepped up to a window and handed over the thermos with a note affixed to it.

The handwritten note (believed to be scribbled on the back of a restaurant receips that bore Hicks’ John Hancock) read:

“Put the $ in the cup, no dye pack, [sic] don’t call police.”

He then allegedly “threatened to kill” the teller if she didn’t cough up the cash.

The teller was seen reading it and placing $2,062 (with two “bait bills” — with pre-recorded serial numbers) into the Stanley cup and returning it to the crook.

Authorities managed to track a misplaced cell phone believed to belong to Hicks to Bar A, an eatery where he had been chowing down shortly before he would score the bank loot.

The phone, which happened to lack a passcode, making it free to access would lead to Hicks’ quick capture.

In fact, hours later officers were at his home and foudn him to carrying a fat roll of cash along with the Stanley thermos.

The suspect was also in possession of a bike, computer equipment, including a new Hewlet Packard laptop, several cellphones, and a bottle of whiskey that he had just bought at Walmart, according to the affidavit.

The young man’s case was initially going to be tried locally.

But last week, the state attorney confirmed the feds were taking it over and he’s since been defending himself in Rockford’s federal court in the robbery and also meth possession.

Hicks denied being in Morrison on the day of the robbery and claims he had an allibi the day before being booted from a house.

He also allegedly told cops he had been guzzling moonshine and was still tipsy when he spoke to cops.

As for the Stanley cup — Hicks allegedly admitted it was his. But said that it wasn’t his makeshift weapon to knock off banks, but his source to sip water.

⬛ EVIDENCE ART

▀ Dope Suppliers Bagged En Route To Delaware (Baltimore, MD)

A COUPLE PRIMING for a big score were nailed before they could get a whiff of the dough.

Brian Alexander Hall, 37, and Lauren Michelle Beckman, 35, both of Baltimore, were fingered while traveling long the Delaware Turnpike.

Authorities say they were tied to a supplier and muling product to the Diamond State.

Subsequent raids were conducted in both Mount Clare and Pigtown nabes.

The total takeaway included 1,078 grams worth of a cocaine brick, 124 grams of fentanyl, 9.96 grams of crack, 68 grams of fentanyl/methamphetamine (Meth) mixture, as well as manufacturing and packaging materials.

HAUL: 1,078 grams worth of a cocaine brick, 124 grams of fentanyl, 9.96 grams of crack, 68 grams of fentanyl/methamphetamine (Meth) mixture, as well as manufacturing and packaging materials

RAP: Drug trafficking charges

▀ Nowhere Bound (Menomonee Falls, WI)

NARCOS NABBED A man trying to high-tail it through town.

The driver was busted back in January racking up speeding infractions on the road near Appelton Avenue and Ruby Road.

Once stopped, cops tied to a drug task force sussed the car and determined it had more than 9 ounces of blow (street value $8,000) and $52,000 of ill-gotten gains.

BACKTALK:

Josh Niegelsen: That does not look like 9 ounces. More like 1.5-2.

Shaun Arrington: Speeding w that in the car 🤦🏾‍♂️

Allison Nicole: That’s a lot of money for very little coke. I have a feeling they just missed out on a large deal and he was about to buy more soon, or he has the rest of the drugs somewhere else because 8 grand in coke and over $50,000 in cash doesn’t add up to me. Hopefully they’ll get a warrant and search this man’s house and other properties because if I had to bet, they would find a lot more drugs there.

Bobby Velez: That most definitely is not 9oz

Capytan Kirk: Just think a half hour earlier you could have got the other 72 OZ

Dave Tiede: 52k, and he drives a malibu?! Aye yay yay...

Jackson Dawn: Thats the rich mans sugar they are off on the value😂