Oklahoma City Man Sentenced to 210 Months for Armed Bank Robbery in Arkansas: Ordered Staff Into Vault to Fill Trash Bag With Cash
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Arkansas announced that an Oklahoma City man was sentenced on November 12 in federal court in Fayetteville to 210 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for an armed robbery of a bank in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas.
The defendant is Aljon Smith, 32. According to court documents, on January 20, 2026, Smith entered the First National Bank in Fort Smith, brandished a firearm and ordered one bank teller to the ground and the other teller to lock the door. He then ordered the bank employees into the bank vault, where he had them fill a trash bag with U.S. currency, before fleeing with the stolen money.
On January 22, 2026, deputies with the U.S. Marshals Service, working with detectives from the Fort Smith Police Department and the Oklahoma City Police Department, arrested Smith in Oklahoma City. The Justice Department said the firearm used in the robbery, as well as some of the stolen currency, were recovered.
Chief District Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing. Smith was sentenced for bank robbery and for using a firearm during and in relation to a federal crime of violence. U.S. Attorney Kevin R. Holmes announced the sentence. The Fort Smith Police Department, the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Oklahoma City Police Department investigated the case, and Assistant U.S. Attorney David Harris prosecuted it.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
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