A Kamloops, B.C. man has been sentenced to five years in jail after pleading guilty to five robberies in Alberta and B.C. last year, including a May 14, 2010 robbery in Innisfail.
Andrew Lloyd Smith, 54, was sentenced in Kamloops court Oct. 7 with robbing five banks, in Innisfail and Nanton, as well as Revelstoke, Kamloops and Oliver, B.C. over a span of 10 days in May, 2010.
Innisfail RCMP Cpl. A.J. Mand said Smith, dubbed the “pyjama” bank robber after he held up the Revelstoke CIBC on May 17, 2010 wearing checkered pyjama pants, was caught on surveillance cameras during the Nanton and Innisfail robberies.
“He wasn’t wearing pyjamas in our robberies, I know that,” Mand said, noting Smith made no effort to conceal his identity in either of the robberies in Alberta.
“He didn’t really hide his face or anything, so we had a good picture of him from the surveillance video from the banks.”
Mand said the May 12, 2010 robbery at the CIBC in Nanton and at the Innisfail Scotiabank two days later were “very, very similar.” Prior to the robberies, Smith went to a different bank, grabbed a deposit slip on which he wrote a note saying he was armed, presented the note to a teller, and then made off with an undisclosed amount of cash.
“He did not show any weapons,” Mand said. “He just stated that he was armed – he didn’t show any weapons. He got the cash and left the banks.”
Smith was eventually charged with the Innisfail and Nanton robberies following his May 21, 2010 arrest near Oliver, B.C. following a bank robbery in that community.
