TPD continues search for bank robber

The Toccoa Police Department continues its search for a Pickens County man that robbed a Stephens County bank on Wednesday.

According to a press release issued Thursday, on August 11, at 7:20 p.m., Investigators with the Toccoa Police Department and GBI Agents received a positive identification on the robbery suspect from the Northeast Georgia Bank.

Toccoa Police Chief Jimmy Mize says Sidney Alan McCollum, 42, from Pickens County, South Carolina, is 5’10”, 200 lbs, brown hair, blue eyed, and has active felony warrants from Pickens, South Carolina, for Larceny and Domestic Violence.

Toccoa Police Department Investigators have now issued a Felony Robbery Warrant for McCollum.

According to Mize, at approximately 11:57 a.m., Wednesday, McCollum entered the Northeast Georgia Bank on Big A Road in Toccoa.

McCollum, according to Mize, approached the teller and passed her a note telling her it was a robbery and asked for money. After getting an undisclosed amount of money, the suspect left the bank on foot.

No one at the bank was injured but the tellers were naturally rattled by the incident.

Officers from the Toccoa Police Department along with deputies with the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office set up a perimeter around the bank and surrounding area.

Dogs from the Stephens County K-9 Unit were called to the scene and were only able to get a short track on the suspect.

Additionally, the Toccoa Police Department says to disregard the picture of the vehicle released in the first press release.

McCollum is believed to be in the vehicle he had stolen in Pickens County—A 1997 White F350 4-door Dually Pick Up with no tag displayed. The vehicle has an aluminum toolbox on the back and has damage to the rear passenger side quarter panel.

Anyone with information on the suspect’s whereabouts is asked not to approach McCollum but to Call: Detective SGT Denver Gunn at the Toccoa Police Department 706-282-3281; Investigator Reed Kent at the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office 864-898-5534; Or GBI Agent Shiloh Crane at 1-800-597-8477.

WNEG News will continue to follow this story and bring you updates as they become available.