DURANT, Miss. (WJTV) – A Durant man was sentenced to 44 months in federal prison for bank robbery.

Prosecutors said Curtis Lee Williams, 22, was also ordered to pay $6,506.00 in restitution to the bank.

According to court documents, Williams robbed a Durant bank on July 7, 2022. The same day, one of the $50 bait bills from the bank was used to purchase three firearms from a pawn shop in Kosciusko. An arrest was made in Durant later that day following a traffic stop.

Williams was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 4, 2023, and pled guilty on December 21, 2023.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Durant Police Department.