Man gets life sentence in Athens armored car heist

<p>A man has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a 2004 armored car heist.</p><p>The sentence against Jeffrey Bernard Henson, 31, came Wednesday after a jury convicted him of armed robbery and theft by receiving last month.</p><p>Clarke County Chief Judge Lawton Stephens ordered Henson to serve a life sentence on the armed robbery conviction and to serve a concurrent 10-year sentence for the theft conviction.</p><p>In the meantime, prosecutors said they have not decided whether to try co-defendant Armond Dewayne Payne, 25, a third time after a jury deadlocked on a verdict in August.</p><p>Henson and Payne allegedly conspired with two other people to hold up a driver for Bantek West Inc. as he loaded money into an armored car outside a Bank of America branch in October 2004.</p><p>They arrived in a van that was stolen in Madison County weeks earlier, and later ditched the van behind an apartment complex where a woman waited in a getaway car, authorities said. The heist netted nearly $250,000.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x1cd9b6c)</p>

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