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November 23rd 2006
Convicted Raymer robber is released early from prison
The man who famously tried to rob the World Series of Poker champion Greg Raymer in December 2004 has been released early from a 3-12 year jail sentence after providing key information in an unrelated murder case.
In December 2004 Deen Cassim and accomplice Kevin Joy waited for Greg Raymer outside his hotel room in the Bellagio, and tried to rob him when he returned from the poker room with an estimated $150,000 in cash and poker chips.
However Raymer, to the delight of the poker world, fought back and despite having a gun pulled on him he managed to push one of the men to the floor while shouting for help, causing the men to flee empty handed.
Cassim and Joy managed to escape from the casino and police were unable to find them for five months, but an anonymous tip led to them being arrested at a gun-show in San Diego, where they were selling toy helicopters.
Raymer identified Cassim as the man who pulled the gun and he was later sentenced to between three and twelve years in prison. Luckily for Cassim however, whilst in prison he was approached with an offer to participate in a murder-for-hire, and he decided to use the information to bargain for his release.
The information had to do with the high profile murder case involving famous husband-and-wife bodybuilders Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan. The couple stood accused of the vicious murder of their personal assistant Melissa James, whose body was found in the boot of Ryan’s burnt out Jaguar, somewhere in the Nevada desert.
The case has yet to conclude, and while in prison Deen Cassim claimed he was contacted by an associate of Titus with a view to murdering key witnesses in the case against Titus and Ryan. Cassim wore a wire and the plot turned out to be real, with former friends and associates Anthony Gross, Megan Pierson Foley and Jeremy Foley the targets of the murder plot. Nelson Brady Jnr was charged with three counts of solicitation to murder.
Submitted: 23/11/2006 14:47:36
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