The South Carolina man accused of robbing two banks in Northeast Georgia last week is now in custody, police say.
Sidney Alan McCollum of Pickens County was arrested in Chattanooga, Tennessee Thursday evening, says Toccoa Police Chief Jimmy Mize.
After a lookout was issued for a possible drunk driver, Mize says a Chattanooga police officer “spotted the suspect’s vehicle pulling into a restaurant parking lot. As McCollum exited the vehicle to enter the restaurant, he was taken into custody without incident.”
McCollum, 42, was still driving the stolen truck he allegedly stole from his hometown. It’s the same vehicle authorities say he used as the getaway vehicle after allegedly robbing Northeast Georgia Bank in Toccoa on August 11 and a Wells Fargo Bank in Gainesville two days later.
McCollum is being held in Hamilton County, Tennessee. He will face extradition back to Georgia to Stephens County and Hall County for the robbery charges as well as to Pickens County, South Carolina for the theft and a domestic violence charge.
