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FORMER ATLANTA POLICE OFFICER SENTENCED TO OVER 64 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR BANK ROBBERIES
November 2, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
David E. Nahmias, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia; Gregory Jones, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Richard Pennington, Chief, Atlanta Police Department, announce that STANLEY STREET, 46, of Jonesboro, Georgia was sentenced today by United States Chief District Judge Orinda D. Evans, on charges of armed bank robbery and using firearms to commit bank robberies. According to Nahmias and the documents and information filed in court:
STREET was sentenced to 64 years, 3 months in federal prison. There is no parole in the federal system. STREET was also ordered to serve 5 years of supervised release.
STREET had been at Atlanta Police officer for 17 years when he robbed the Wachovia bank at 2891 Lakewood Ave. in Atlanta on June 29, 2004. He robbed the Wachovia bank at 1071 Chattahoochie Ave. in Atlanta on July 20, 2004, and he returned to rob that bank again on August 31, 2004. STREET took over $137,000 in the three robberies. In each robbery, STREET entered the bank wearing a mask, gloves, baggy clothes, and brandished a semiautomatic pistol. Tellers said he was polite in the first two robberies, but he threatened to kill tellers in his return to the bank on Chattahoochie Ave. in August because tellers had given him exploding dye packs in the July robbery.
Before joining the Atlanta Police Department, STREET had been a police officer in Savannah and a drill instructor in the United States Marine Corps. The evidence showed that he had robbed the banks to fund his lifestyle and his private security company.
"It is a sad day when a police officer must be sent to prison, but Stanley Street brought dishonor to law enforcement and endangered and traumatized many innocent people in his selfish and violent pursuit of money, said United States Attorney David E. Nahmias. "Our efforts to make our community safer begin with removing violent people from the street, and we are satisfied that justice has been done in this case."
This case was investigated by Special Agents of the FBI and detectives of the Atlanta Police Department.
Assistant United States Attorney William G. Traynor prosecuted the case.
For further information please contact David E. Nahmias, United States Attorney, or F. Gentry Shelnutt, Chief, Criminal Division, through Patrick Crosby, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Attorney's Office, at (404) 581-6016. The Internet address for the HomePage for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia is www.usdoj.gov/usao/gan.