Story highlights Cesar Yanez was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for his role in the heist

His wife and two others are also being prosecuted

Los Angeles (CNN) Cesar Yanez was convicted this summer of an armored-truck heist where he and his accomplices made off with a cool million.

On Thursday, cops recovered more than half of that. It was buried in the backyard of his Southern California home in Fontana, about 50 miles east of Los Angeles.

FBI agents dug up some $600,000 of carefully wrapped bills, said Ari DeKofsky, a spokeswoman for the agency.

In November 2014, authorities found about $85,000 at the same home.

Yanez was convicted of bank larceny and conspiracy in August. He was sentenced to nearly five years in prison.

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