COLUMBIA, S.C. — Six young men who staged one of the largest armored car heists in U.S. history, then spent a week splurging on strippers, high-living among other things.
On Monday, the men — four of whom were college students at the time of the holdup — will learn their punishment for the $9.8 million robbery and the beating of a guard left bloodied and bound on a secluded road in 2007.
While prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence all but one of the men to at least 25 years, relatives and defense attorneys insist they are misguided youth, not scheming criminals.
"He's a Christian person that — once he recognizes he's made a mistake — he makes a change in his life," Gail McPhail, the mother of one of the men, said during a hearing earlier this month. "I believe he has greatness in him."
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