CHARLESTON, S.C. — A 28-year-old man from Cedartown has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for his role in a $1.9 million robbery from a bank truck.
Terry Tyrone Pollard was convicted of bank larceny as well as a count of conspiracy to commit bank larceny. He was one of five individuals indicted, and the only one to not plead guilty in the case. He went to trial and was found guilty in March 2023. Pollard was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
According to the Department of Justice, in January 2021 a Garda employee recruited Pollard and three others to pretend to rob him so he could claim to be a victim of an armed robbery. The group formed a plan via Snapchat. Pollard and the other recruits traveled from Cedartown, Georgia, to the Garda employee's apartment in North Charleston on Jan. 15, 2021, and then drove around scouting locations.
On Jan. 16, the Garda employee parked his truck outside a Bank of America ATM. The recruited robbers approached the driver and pretended to restrain him at gunpoint. They then loaded $1.9 million in cash into black trash bags and fled back to Georgia.
Within several hours, one of the other robbers posted a video of Pollard holding a large stack of the stolen cash. Pollard was arrested shortly after, and five days later he called an associate from jail and asked the associate to delete his phone records.
During the investigation, North Charleston police became suspicious of the driver's statements and alerted the FBI of his possible involvement.
