Four Bank Robbers Sentenced to Total of 539 Months in Prison‏

Edmund A. Booth, Jr., United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, announced that Christopher Michael Walker and Georgeann Marie Nixon, both residents of Waynesboro, Georgia, were sentenced last week in U.S. District Court by U. S. District Judge J. Randal Hall for their roles in the June 26, 2008 armed robbery of the Regions Bank branch in Louisville, Georgia and the June 30, 2008 armed robbery of the Quick Cash payday loan store in North Augusta, South Carolina.. Walker was sentenced to 140 months and Nixon was sentenced to 60 months. Judge Hall recently sentenced Leonardo Davinci Hardwick of Waynesboro, Georgia to 219 months imprisonment for his role in those armed robberies, as well as for his participation in the July 7, 2008 armed bank robbery of the Southern Bank branch in Waynesboro, Georgia.

Another Waynesboro resident, Kellington Toan Chandler, had been previously sentenced by Judge Hall to 120 months imprisonment for his role in the Southern Bank robbery. Booth stated that the evidence at the guilty plea and sentencing hearings for these defendants established that Nixon drove Hardwick and Walker to the Regions Bank branch in Louisville, Georgia on June 26, 2008 in an automobile provided by Walker, where Hardwick entered the bank wearing a mask provided by Walker, pointed a firearm at a teller, and stole $3,100. The evidence also showed that Nixon drove Hardwick and Walker to the Quick Cash payday loan store located at 4701 Jefferson Davis Highway, North Augusta, South Carolina on June 30, 2008 in an automobile provided by Walker, where Hardwick entered the store wearing a mask provided by Walker, pointed a firearm at two employees, and stole $1,800. The evidence also established that Hardwick accompanied Chandler to the Southern Bank branch in Waynesboro, Georgia on July 7, 2008 and provided him with the firearm that Chandler used to steal $16,000 from a teller. While Chandler fled the bank, he fired the revolver twice but did not strike anyone.

Booth also noted that, in addition to imprisonment, these defendants will be required to pay restitution as follows: Hardwick, $10,792; Chandler, $5,887; Nixon, $4,905; and Walker, $3,205. After their release from prison, Hardwick, Chandler, and Walker will serve five years of supervised release and Nixon will serve three years of supervised release.

Booth praised the joint efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Waynesboro Police Department, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, and Aiken County Sheriff’s Office and the efforts of Assistant United States Attorney David M. Stewart who represented the government in this prosecution.

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