Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 8, 1991 TAG: 9103080518
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Ricky Ricardio Johnson admitted to a federal judge that he assisted Dedric Lee Wiley in the armed robbery of the Roanoke General Electric Employees Federal Credit Union at Lewis-Gale Hospital four days before Christmas by providing him with a 12-gauge pistol-grip shotgun.
In a plea agreement reached in U.S. District Court in Roanoke, a charge of conspiracy to commit bank robbery was dismissed.
Wiley, 19, admitted last month that he was the gunman who robbed the credit union of $7,521.
Johnson was charged with recruiting Wiley to be the holdup man.
An indictment charged that Johnson and Wiley drove their car to the residence of a third man, Anthony DeWayne Ramey.
The three rode to the credit union and, with Wiley commanding a bank teller to fill a bag with money, Ramey serving as the lookout and Johnson behind the wheel of the car, robbed the credit union, the indictment charged.
Prosecutors attempted to reach a plea agreement with Ramey, 33, Thursday morning but could not. His jury trial began Thursday and was to continue today.
by CNB