Third defendant gets prison in Prattville credit union ATM robbery

A third man has been sent to federal prison for the Prattville credit union ATM robbery that investigators tied to an out-of-state crew, bringing another chapter of the case to a close in Autauga County. Dominique Jeremiah Pearson, 34, of Spring, Texas, received 77 months in prison on June 17, 2026, after pleading guilty to bank robbery and will serve three years of supervised release after he is released.

Pearson was one of three defendants prosecutors said overpowered technicians at Guardian Credit Union, 1794 East Main Street, while the ATM was being serviced. Federal prosecutors said the crew removed cash cassettes containing about $179,234, and one technician was struck by a cassette while another was shoved during the robbery. The court also ordered Pearson, Onarri Bond, 27, of Cedar Hill, Texas, and Xavier Rashad Ross, 35, of Houston, Texas, to forfeit the stolen proceeds.

Bond had already been sentenced to 52 months in February 2026, while Ross received 72 months in March 2026 to run concurrently with an earlier bank-robbery sentence. Federal bank robbery cases carry no parole, meaning the prison terms are generally served in full aside from any credit or release rules under federal law.

Prattville police first publicly flagged the crime as an attempted ATM theft on June 9, 2024, saying it happened between 4:40 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. and involved a stolen 2003 white Ford F-350. In a later update, police said they believed a Texas-based group arrested in Santa Rosa County, Florida, may have been involved in or associated with the Prattville robbery, and said both vehicles tied to the case had been recovered.

The case drew in the FBI, Prattville Police Department, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency and the United States Marshals Service, a sign of how quickly a violent financial crime can move from a local alarm call to a coordinated federal investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Tara S. Ratz and Joel Feil prosecuted the case.

For Prattville, the sentence closes out a robbery that started as suspicious activity at a roadside ATM and ended as a federal case built around force, stolen cash, and a multistate arrest trail. It also fits a broader warning local police issued in December 2024, urging residents to watch for ATM tampering, skimmers and people lingering near machines.