CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A Georgia man was sentenced to federal prison after being convicted of staging a bank truck robbery of $1.9 million from a North Charleston bank.

Terry Tyrone Pollard, 28, of Cedartown, Georgia was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison after being convicted of conspiracy to commit bank larceny and bank larceny.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the evidence presented at trial established that in early January 2021, a Garda employee recruited Pollard and three others to pretend to rob him at gunpoint, to which he would pretend to be a victim of an armed robbery.

Officials say the subjects formulated the plan over Snapchat. Pollard and co-defendants traveled from Cedartown, Georgia to North Charleston and scouted potential locations in the area.

The Garda employee parked his truck outside of a Bank of America ATM when Pollard and the other co-defendants pretended to restrain him at gunpoint, reports say.

The subjects loaded $1.9 million in cash into trash bags and fled the area back to Georgia.

Authorities say, the North Charleston Police Department’s investigators were skeptical of the driver’s statements during the investigation and alerted the FBI of a potential inside job.

Several hours later, back in Georgia, Pollard and the other co-defendants posted a Snapchat video. The video showed Pollard holding a large stack of stolen cash in front of his face, reports say.

U.S. Attorney’s Office says Pollard was arrested shortly after. Days after his arrest, Pollard called an associate from jail over a recorded line and asked him to delete his phone records.

Pollard went to trial and was found guilty of conspiracy to commit bank larceny and bank larceny in March 2023, officials say. Pollard was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release.