Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, March 8, 1991                   TAG: 9103080772
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: EVENING 
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SECOND MAN ADMITS CREDIT UNION ROBBERY

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.