Judge imposes the full term with no time suspended after prosecutors call the 2024 hold-up Indiana’s first prosecuted casino robbery
US.- Judge Aaron Negangard of the Dearborn Circuit Court has sentenced Daniel Birdseye of Cincinnati to 52 years in prison for robbing Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg at gunpoint and taking an employee hostage in March 2024. In May, a jury had found Birdseye guilty of kidnapping, armed criminal confinement, and three counts of armed intimidation.
Birdseye entered the Penn Entertainment-operated casino in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on March 2 2024 with a loaded 9mm handgun. Prosecutors said he threatened employees, forced his way into a secured cage and bank area, stole cash and then used an employee as a hostage to leave the building…