One of three men who impersonated federal law enforcement while zip-tying a 71-year-old Pierce County woman’s hands together in a home-invasion robbery has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Timothy Eugene Rozier, 44, pleaded guilty Monday in Pierce County Superior Court to first-degree robbery in the Jan. 4, 2023, robbery at an Elk Plain home about a half mile from Bethel Middle School. According to court records, the woman’s front door was kicked open that afternoon by men wearing black and camouflage clothing with tactical vests and badges on their chests.
The men yelled that they were U.S. Marshals, and they told her to get on the ground and put her hands behind her back. The woman later told detectives that a gun was pointed in her face, and the men restrained her and asked, “Where’s the money?” One demanded to know where a DVR was while others ransacked her bedroom.
Stolen from the home was a purse containing money and jewelry, a pump-action shotgun and other items.
Surveillance video showed that while Rozier and two other men robbed the home, a fourth suspect sat in the driver’s seat of a gold Chevy Tahoe. Prosecutors wrote in court filings that no one but Rozier was identified, arrested or charged in the crime.