A Polk County man is headed to federal prison after conspiring with a bank truck driver to commit a robbery.
According to the Ministry of Justice, a Garda employee recruited Terry Tyrone Pollard, 28, of Cedartown, and three others to pretend to rob him.
Federal prosecutors say the group used Snapchat to craft their plan.
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On January 16, 2021, the Garda officer parked his truck in front of a Bank of America ATM in North Charleston, South Carolina.
Pollard and the other co-defendants walked up to him and pretended to hold him at gunpoint. They then loaded $1.9 million in cash into trash bags and drove back to Georgia, federal prosecutors said.
When the driver was questioned by police, they became suspicious and warned the FBI that it may have been an inside job.
Several hours later, one of the other co-defendants posted a video on Snapchat in which Pollard showed the stolen money in front of his face.
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Pollard was arrested and a few days later he called someone from a recorded prison line and asked him to delete his phone records.
The other four people involved pleaded guilty, but Pollard went to trial and was found guilty of conspiracy to commit bank robbery and bank theft. He also has a previous conviction for armed robbery.
Pollard was sentenced to five years and three months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
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