Authorities have made an arrest in the Sept. 21 incident in which two masked men robbed the First Volunteer Bank at 6825 Shallowford Road at gunpoint.
Willie Jay Kaipo Kaluakoa, 39, was charged with aggravated robbery.
In the incident around 1:30 p.m., authorities said the two suspects donned masks in the parking lot prior to entering the bank. One man wore a hard hat and carried a silver semi- automatic pistol. He stood in the lobby and acted as a lookout.
The other man robbed all three tellers at gunpoint and also closed the blinds at the drive-through windows.
The pair ran out to the waiting vehicle, which jumped the curb and lost a hub cap as it careened from the bank.
The vehicle was described as a maroon four-door, early 1990s Pontiac Bonneville.
The arrest report on Kaluakoa says on Sept. 16 he had rented a 2003 Pontiac Bonneville from Scott's Rent A Car at South Moore Road, East Ridge.
It says during the holdup that employees were ordered to the ground, and the robbers took two dye packs as they removed loot from the drawers.
The report says, "Guns were pointed directly at the tellers and employees placing them in terrible fear during the incident."
The pair got away with $21,450.
DEA agents were told two days after the holdup that a source told them that the second person allegedly involved in the holdup was talking about robbing a bank. He and Kaluakoa were co-defendants in a prior case, it was stated.
Two days after the bank robbery, Kaluakoa returned the rented Bonneville and rented a silver Chevrolet Impala.
On Sept. 27, a black female identified as the girlfriend of Kaluakoa, entered the Walmart on Gunbarrel Road and passed $351 in dye stained cash on a debit card purchase. She left the store and got into an Impala.
Later, the same female tried to load $400 in dye-stained cash on a Walmart/GE money card at the Brainerd Walmart. She had conducted a prior purchase with an EBT card registered to Allison Evans.
Last Thursday, agents executed a search warrant at 209 Tacoa Ave., where Ms. Evans and Kaluakoa were living. They found dye-stained cash, multiple receipts and money cards from Walmart where large sums had been placed on money cards, and airline receipts from a vacation to Hawaii after the bank robbery.