January 08, 2017
A former security guard who lost his job at Caesar's Casino in Atlantic City has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for a 2014 armed robbery at his old workplace, the New Jersey Attorney General's Office announced late last week.
Izyiah Plummer, 22, lost his job at Caesar's for unspecified reasons before he and three co-conspirators devised a plot to rob the casino at gunpoint on the morning of July 21, 2014.
Investigators determined that Plummer and his associates, all of whom pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing in March, appeared at Caesar's around 6:15 a.m. that morning. Plummer and 26-year-old Aaron Evans, both wearing masks and gloves, approached a security guard and another casino employee who were loading full cash boxes onto a trolley.
Prosecutors said Plummer pointed a gun at the security guard's head while Evans removed three cash boxes from the trolley, which was stationed near a self-redemption terminal at a casino kiosk. As the duo fled the scene, one of them dropped a cash box and left it behind. The other two boxes, containing approximately $181,200, were loaded into the getaway vehicle.
The conspirators drove to Plummer's residence in the Venice Park section of Atlantic City and divided the cash amongst themselves. When authorities executed a search warrant at the apartment, investigators found a black ski mask, bullets for a .38 special handgun and $43,900 in cash. Another $4,300 and a handle from a cash box were discovered at Evans' home.
An August 2015 indictment charged Plummer with first-degree armed robbery, conspiracy, aggravated assault and related weapons offenses. He eventually pleaded guilty to all of the charges in August 2016. He will spend 11 years in state prison and will be ineligible for parole for nine years and four months.
“Many people have dreams of getting lucky and walking away from a casino with the big jackpot, but unfortunately Izyiah Plummer chose to rely on robbery and violence to make his dream come true,” said Colonel Rick Fuentes, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police. “Thanks to some great work by the lead State Police detectives and our partners, Plummer won't be planning heists in the near future.”
