By MELISSA PEACOCK

LAPLACE – Troy Rhodes, 34, and Wilson Jackson III, 19, are being held in Sherman Walker Correctional Facility in connection with last month’s robbery of the First National Bank USA on Belle Terre Boulevard in LaPlace, Sheriff Wayne Jones said.

Rhodes was taken into custody Monday after he was spotted on a street corner by New Orleans police. Rhodes, also a suspect in the shooting of a delivery man in New Orleans, was charged in St. John the Baptist Parish with armed robbery with a firearm and aggravated assault. His bond was set at $200,000.

Jackson was taken into custody Tuesday during a traffic stop. He is charged with being a principle to armed robbery. His bond was set at $75,000.

On May 7, two men drove through the First National Bank drive-through and around to the front of the building. Parking a stolen yellow motorcycle near the door of the bank, the two men entered the bank property and held up bank employees inside, escaping with an undisclosed amount of money.

The motorcycle used in the robbery was later found abandoned. The two suspects continued to flee from officers on foot. Michael Addison, 19, was captured, but the second suspect, Rhodes, evaded police until his arrest, said Captain Michael Tregre.

Addison was charged with armed robbery, aggravated assault, flight from an officer and possession of stolen property. Bank employee Kristi Ann Hoover, 19, of Garyville, was also arrested in connection with the robbery. Hoover was taken into custody and was charged with being a principle to armed robbery.

Hoover has been accused of helping to plan the robbery by providing Addison and Rhodes with confidential information about bank operations, Tregre said.

Addison implicated Hoover in planning of the bank robbery following his arrest. He also named the 19-year-old Wilson Jackson III as the driver of the Buick LeSabre getaway car parked off of Highway 51, Tregre said.

Police believe Addison and Rhodes planned to rob the bank using the stolen motorcycle, then to abandon the motorcycle and meet with a getaway driver.

According to Sheriff Jones, a substantal portion of the stolen money has been recovered.

The relationship between the suspects is still unknown.