Former Brinks driver sentenced to 20 years for armored car robbery
SAVANNAH, GA Feb 26 2019 A former driver for the armored car company Brinks has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for playing a role in two 2016 armored car robberies.
28-year-old Victor Natson of Savannah was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood. Natson has also been ordered to pay restitution of $34,740, as well as serve five years of supervised release after the sentence is complete.
23-year-old Joshua Scott of Savannah and 33-year-old Gregory Lamar Plair were also convicted along with Natson. Scott received a sentence of 15 years, while Plair pled guilty in the case and was sentenced to eight years.
Evidence presented at trial showed that Natson recruited Plair to help him rob the armored cars. Plair, coordinating with his cousin Joshua Scott, robbed two seperate armored cars with Natson serving as the getaway driver. The three stole $35,000 the first time, but Scott and Plair were shot in the process by an armored car employee. They went to the hospital were they were arrested shortly after.
“Natson’s two-decade sentence wraps up the prosecution of an ill-conceived, short-lived and violent crime spree in which, fortunately, only the criminals were injured,” said Bobby L. Christine, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. “Three predators are now locked away with a warning to other would-be criminals that no matter what kind of schemes they concoct, law enforcement and prosecutors will work that much harder to put them behind bars.”
“Natson felt his knowledge of the armored car company he worked for would lead him to illicit gains, but instead it opened the doors of a prison cell for a lengthy sentence behind bars,” said Chris Hacker, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta. “We are fortunate that no innocent victims were hurt as a result of his selfish desire for wealth.”
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