(BENTON, IL) — A 38-year-old Alabama man has been sentenced in federal court to more than 9-years in federal prison for robbing a Central City bank. According to U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Donald Boyce, George David Treece was sentenced to 115 months in prison to be followed by a three-year-term of supervised release. Treece has been held without bond since his arrest August 26, 2016, after he entered the Farmers State Bank in Central City and demanded money from a bank teller. After the teller removed the money from her drawer and placed it on the counter, Treece took the money and left. An alert Centralia police officer became suspicious of Treece’s vehicle after spotting it a short time later. An attempted traffic stop resulted in a pursuit that ended in Treece’s arrest. Later that day, after being Mirandized, Treece admitted robbing the bank. The case was investigated by the Central City Police Department, Centralia Police Department, Wamac Police Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The case was assigned to Assistant United States Attorney Angela Scott.