BIRMINGHAM—A Huntsville man pleaded
guilty today to three 2010 bank robberies in North Alabama, including one in
which more than $93,000 was stolen, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance
and FBI Special Agent in Charge Patrick J. Maley.
Tavares Antwan Oliver, 35, entered his
pleas before U.S. District Judge Karon O. Bowdre to two counts of armed bank
robbery, two counts of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, and
one count of bank robbery. Oliver admitted to robbing CB&S Bank on
University Drive in Huntsville on September 29, 2010; Bancorp South on Hughes
Road in Madison on October 25, 2010; and to brandishing a firearm during both
of those robberies. He also admitted to robbing Peoples Bank on Beltline Road
in Decatur on December 8, 2010.
Oliver faces a mandatory minimum
sentence of 32 years for brandishing a firearm during the bank robberies. This
sentence is in addition to any sentence he will receive for the bank robberies
themselves. His sentencing is scheduled August 29 in Huntsville.
Two other men have been convicted and
sentenced in connection to the 2010 North Alabama bank robberies.
In March, Judge Bowdre sentenced another
Huntsville man, Ronald Lewis Henderson, 26, to six years and three months in prison
for the armed robberies at CB&S Bank and Peoples Bank. Henderson pleaded
guilty to the charges in December. In Henderson’s plea agreement with the
government, he admitted he and Oliver entered the CB&S bank wearing
disguises and took $93,000 at gunpoint from the bank. Henderson also admitted
entering the Peoples Bank with Oliver and demanding a teller put money in a
plastic bag. Decatur Police saw the men leaving the bank and both were arrested
after fleeing police.
U.S. District Judge Sharon Lovelace
Blackburn in December sentenced Anthony Shawn Clark, Jr., 23, of Madison, to
four years and 10 months in prison for the 2010 robbery of Bancorp South in
Madison. Clark pleaded guilty to the charge in May 2011. In his plea agreement,
Clark admitted that he and Oliver entered the bank wearing disguises and that
Oliver brandished a gun and Clark ordered a teller to put money in a backpack
Clark was carrying. The men saw Madison Police approaching the bank and fled.
Both were arrested shortly thereafter.
The FBI, along with Decatur, Madison,
and Huntsville Police Departments, investigated the bank robberies. Assistant
U.S. Attorney Mary Stuart Burrell prosecuted the cases.
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