A Kansas City man who was under surveillance when he and two other men robbed a bank in the Northland has pleaded guilty in federal court.

Acting United States Attorney David M. Ketchmark announced Thursday that Edward L. Green, 24, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Beth Phillips to the charge contained in an Aug. 7, 2012, federal indictment.

Co-defendants Robert Lowe, 27, and Rolando Winters, 25, also of Kansas City, have also pleaded guilty.

Green admitted today that he drove the getaway car for the July 19, 2012, robbery in which they stole $5,863 from the Bank of America at 661 N.W. 55th Terrace.

According to court documents, law enforcement officers had been conducting surveillance on Green, Lowe and Winters as the men were apparently casing several banks in North Kansas City, Mo., and in Kansas City-North.

When Lowe and Winters ran out of the bank, law enforcement officers ordered them to stop. Green was arrested without incident but Lowe and Winters continued to run around an apartment complex. They ran into an undercover law enforcement truck around the corner of a building and were taken into custody. Winters was transported to North Kansas City Hospital for treatment of injuries he received from running into the vehicle.

Under federal statutes, each of the defendants is subject to a sentence of up to 20 years in federal prison without parole, plus a fine up to $250,000. Sentencing hearings will be scheduled after the completion of presentence investigations by the United States Probation Office.