A District man who was shot by police after unsuccessfully trying to rob an armored truck that contained $2 million in cash has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.
A federal judge in Greenbelt on Thursday ordered Toumani Touray Thomas to serve 15 years and three months in prison and five years of supervised release for attempting to rob the Dunbar truck last fall.
U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus also said Thomas must pay restitution of $5,285 for damage he caused to the truck.
Thomas, 33, tried to rob the armored truck while it was making a pickup at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park on Oct. 16, 2009. The truck was carrying more than $2 million from cash pickups at other businesses that day in D.C. and Maryland.
Thomas tried to open the driver-side door, and was ordered away by a crew member. He followed the truck when it drove away, and fired into the front of the vehicle when it stopped near Powder Mill Road and Cherry Hill Road in Prince George’s County, according to court records.
When the truck’s crew tried to drive away, Thomas again followed the vehicle.
Court records say he passed the truck and made a U-turn in front of it on the 3600 block of Powder Mill Road. He then fired two rounds with an SKS 762 assault rifle into the front of the truck and fled in his vehicle after police arrived at the scene.
Thomas abandoned the vehicle and ran on foot with a rifle. He entered a house on the 5000 block of Lexington Avenue in Beltsville and asked the residents for the keys to their car.
The occupants fled the house.
When Prince George’s County police arrived at the scene, Thomas tried to run from the home with his rifle. An officer shot him in the abdomen.
After his arrest, Thomas told officers that he was high on PCP during the incident, police said.
A federal grand jury indicted Thomas in February, and he pleaded guilty to the robbery and weapons charges in May. His public defender, John Chamble, did not return a call Thursday for comment on the sentencing.
