CLEVELAND (WJW) - A Cleveland man who investigators said "terrorized" a Chase Bank employee during an armed robbery last year was sentenced to prison.

Joel Alonte Travis, 21, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after a federal jury found him guilty of armed bank robbery and using a firearm during a violent crime, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio announced on Friday.

He was also ordered to three years of "supervised release after imprisonment" and must pay more than $112,000 in restitution.

In October 2024, a technician was servicing a drive-thru ATM at a Chase Bank in South Euclid when two men in masks jumped out of a Hyundai and ambushed him in broad daylight, according to court records.

"One of the masked men grabbed the victim and pressed a gun to the bac

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