FEB. 26, 2007:

Heather Lyn Johnston and Ashley Nicole Miller, dancers at Shooter Alley, a Doraville strip club on Buford Highway, complain they don't want go work and joke maybe they should rob a bank. Michael Darrell Chastang, Miller's boyfriend, says he knows someone who works at a bank if they are serious.

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Ashley Nicole Miller with her lawyer earlier this year.

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Nineteen-year-old Ashley Nicole Miller, (right) earlier this year during a court appearance.

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Nineteen-year-old Heather Johnston during a probable cause hearing last year.

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Heather Lyn Johnston gets emotional during her plea earlier this year.

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Bank surveillance camera images of two girls who robbed the Bank of America branch inside the Acworth Kroger.

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FEB. 27, 2007:

•About 10 a.m. Chastang calls the women, waking them up and says "It's time." He gives them a cell phone number for his bank teller friend. The women call the teller, get directions and stop at a gas station to buy paper for the demand note. They get lost their way to the bank and have to call the teller again for directions. They call him several times and he dictates what they need to write on the demand note.

•12:18 p.m. Johnston and Miller, walk up to the counter of a Bank of American branch inside an Acworth Kroger at 1720 Mars Hill Road. They walk out with $10,966. After waiting a few minutes, the bank teller, Benny Herman Allen III, tells his supervisors that he's just been robbed.

The women run to their car, which is parked in a nearby shopping center. Once on the road they toss shirts, sunglasses and a pair of shoes out the window.

•6:55 p.m. Cobb police release pictures of the two women, setting off a media frenzy that reaches around the world.

Later that evening, Chastang meets up with Allen in a Cobb County neighborhood to give him his $2,500 split.

FEB. 28, 2007:

After the pictures are released, police receive hundreds of tips. One of them is from a man who says the girls are dancers at Shooter Alley going by "Charli" (Johnston) and "Adrianne" (Miller).

Police investigating the case discover that Allen has an outstanding warrant from Bartow County for misdemeanor marijuana possession, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of Ecstasy. Allen is taken into custody and later bonds out, using the money from the bank theft.

Chastang, Miller's boyfriend, tells the girls to lay low. They go shopping instead at Lenox Mall and Phipps Plaza. They are also spotted at Carter-Barnes, the swank Buckhead salon. They give their own names, get their hair done and drop $50 tips.

MARCH 1, 2007

Cobb police have the two women under surveillance. They follow the women from their Atlanta apartment as they get onto I-20 and drive through Fulton, Cobb and Douglas counties. Chastang is traveling with them. Police find marijuana on the floorboard of Johnston's 2007 Nissan Sentra. Chastang also has 110 tablets of Ecstasy on him. Police later testify they saw smoke coming from the car windows. Johnston testifies the trio "smoked weed" during the drive.

Police charge Johnston and Miller with theft by taking in the bank heist. After interrogating Johnston, detectives also charge Chastang in the bank theft.

Johnston later goes with police to the bank site, helping them find the clothes they threw away.

Allen is arrested and charged with theft by taking. (Allen was also arrested on March 13, 2007 on another theft by taking charge stemming from $1,600 missing from his teller's till on Feb. 2, 2007.)

AUG. 22, 2007:

Heather Lyn Johnston pleads guilty to theft by taking, a felony, and misdemeanor marijuana possession. No promises on sentencing are made, and the district attorney asks for three years in prison, plus seven years on probation. Johnston's family and her pastor ask Cobb Superior Court Judge Mary Staley to spare her prison time.

Staley delays sentencing, pending the outcome of the cases against the other defendants.

JAN. 29, 2008:

Chastang is convicted of trafficking in Ecstasy after a non-jury trial. Staley sentences Chastang, who has a long criminal record, to 15 years in prison to be followed by 15 years on probation.

FEB. 1, 2008

Miller pleads guilty to theft by taking. She also pleads guilty to possession of Ecstasy with intent to distribute, which is reduced from a drug trafficking charge.

Allen pleads guilty to theft by taking.

Again, no sentence promises are made and the prosecutor asks for three years in prison for each.

MARCH 7, 2008

A jury convicts Chastang of theft by taking. Johnston, Miller and Allen testify against him. Cobb police detecive Brad McEntyre also offers another key piece of evidence against Chastang: cell phone records of calls among all four defendants.

MARCH 19, 2008

Sentencing for Chastang is delayed. Staley issues an arrest warrant for his main defense attorney, Joseph Shaw, after he fails to show up in court for Chastang's sentencing.

March 25, 2008

Shaw is scheduled to appear before Staley at 9 a.m. to explain his absence.

Compiled by Yolanda Rodríguez from news reports, police releases, court documents and court testimony.