Gang Member Gets Life Sentence for Murder, Casino Robbery
Posted: Oct 22, 2013 3:22 PM EDTUpdated: Oct 22, 2013 3:23 PM EDT
By Steve Kanigher, I-Team Reporter
LAS VEGAS -- A member of the Playboy Bloods street gang received a life sentence Tuesday for the retaliation murder of a man in 2004 and the armed robbery of a Henderson casino in 2002, Nevada's U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said in a joint announcement with Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department's Criminal Division.
"We will use federal resources to prosecute street gang members who commit cowardly and horrible crimes in our community," Bogden said. "I commend the many law enforcement officers who worked on this investigation and assisted us in ensuring a conviction in this case."
Jacorey Taylor, also known as "Mo-B," 31, who was convicted in May, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert Jones. Taylor was convicted of engaging in a racketeering conspiracy, committing violent crimes in aid of racketeering activity, using a firearm during a crime of violence, participating in a drug conspiracy, and possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute.
He is the ninth gang member to be convicted out of 10 charged in a racketeering indictment filed in 2008. The remaining defendant, Markette Tillman, 31, is awaiting trial.
Taylor and co-defendants Reginald Dunlap and Steven Booth were convicted of participating in the murder of Billy Ray Thomas, who was shot multiple times in the back on the morning of Nov. 1, 2004. Thomas was shot as he worked on a car in the parking lot of the Pecos Terrace Apartments while waiting to take his girlfriend to work.
The defendants murdered Thomas due to their mistaken belief that the victim was a member of a rival street gang.
Evidence produced at trial also showed that on March 21, 2002, Taylor, armed with an AR-15 style assault rifle, and another man armed with a handgun entered the Klondike Casino in Henderson, forced their way behind the casino cage, and took more than $7,000.
Dunlap and Booth pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges during Taylor's trial and were each sentenced in April to 20 years in prison. There is no parole in the federal criminal justice system.
The cases were investigated by the FBI's Las Vegas Safe Streets Gang Task Force, which includes officers from Metro Police and the North Las Vegas Police Department. The cases are being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Nicholas Dickinson and Phillip Smith, Jr., and Kevin Rosenberg, a trial attorney with the Justice Department's Organized Crime and Gang Section.
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"We will use federal resources to prosecute street gang members who commit cowardly and horrible crimes in our community," Bogden said. "I commend the many law enforcement officers who worked on this investigation and assisted us in ensuring a conviction in this case."
Jacorey Taylor, also known as "Mo-B," 31, who was convicted in May, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert Jones. Taylor was convicted of engaging in a racketeering conspiracy, committing violent crimes in aid of racketeering activity, using a firearm during a crime of violence, participating in a drug conspiracy, and possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute.
He is the ninth gang member to be convicted out of 10 charged in a racketeering indictment filed in 2008. The remaining defendant, Markette Tillman, 31, is awaiting trial.
Taylor and co-defendants Reginald Dunlap and Steven Booth were convicted of participating in the murder of Billy Ray Thomas, who was shot multiple times in the back on the morning of Nov. 1, 2004. Thomas was shot as he worked on a car in the parking lot of the Pecos Terrace Apartments while waiting to take his girlfriend to work.
The defendants murdered Thomas due to their mistaken belief that the victim was a member of a rival street gang.
Evidence produced at trial also showed that on March 21, 2002, Taylor, armed with an AR-15 style assault rifle, and another man armed with a handgun entered the Klondike Casino in Henderson, forced their way behind the casino cage, and took more than $7,000.
Dunlap and Booth pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges during Taylor's trial and were each sentenced in April to 20 years in prison. There is no parole in the federal criminal justice system.
The cases were investigated by the FBI's Las Vegas Safe Streets Gang Task Force, which includes officers from Metro Police and the North Las Vegas Police Department. The cases are being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Nicholas Dickinson and Phillip Smith, Jr., and Kevin Rosenberg, a trial attorney with the Justice Department's Organized Crime and Gang Section.
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