The federal courthouse in Salt Lake Metropolis is pictured on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. A Layton man affected by a severe playing habit was sentenced to jail in reference to two 2017 credit score union robberies in Davis County. Scott G Winterton, Deseret Information
A Layton man with a severe playing habit was sentenced final week after he pleaded responsible in 2019 to robbing two Davis County credit score unions.
Kevin Dean Rasband, 36, was sentenced April 26 to seven years in federal jail on three fees related to 2 robberies in early 2017, in accordance with federal court docket information. Rasband's court docket information didn't say if he was given credit score for time served whereas in jail, as he is been within the custody of the Weber County Jail since Might 2017.
Rasband pleaded responsible to 3 felonies in October 2019, consisting of two counts of credit score union theft and one rely of utilizing, carrying or brandishing a firearm throughout against the law of violence. An extra firearm cost was dismissed as a part of a plea deal.
Preliminary charging paperwork say that Rasband robbed a Goldenwest Credit score Union in Kaysville on Feb. 11, 2017, and a Utah First Federal Credit score Union in Farmington on March 29, 2017. Rasband's fees initially accused him of brandishing a firearm in each robberies. He finally pleaded responsible to brandishing a gun within the March theft, whereas the cost accusing him of carrying a gun within the earlier theft was dismissed.
A sentencing memorandum filed in April by considered one of Rasband's attorneys provides larger element to the robberies and to Rasband's motivations behind the crimes.
The doc states that Rasband dedicated the robberies to gasoline his playing habit, which had spiraled uncontrolled. Rasband started deceptive his employer, the Davis County Recorder's Workplace, by clocking in at work, then driving to West Wendover to gamble, solely to drive again earlier than his shift was over. The county started investigating him for time card fraud in January 2017. Rasband left his job with the county quite than have others study of his playing, in accordance with the memorandum.
Rasband went to nice lengths to stop others from figuring out about his habit. The memorandum says he would hire vehicles to drive to Nevada in an effort to stop his spouse from noticing the mileage on the household's automobile. Rasband additionally cashed out his 401K so he did not have to make use of his wage on playing. As his losses continued to mount, Rasband grew to become extra determined.
"That's when he determined the one resolution to his issues ... was to rob a financial institution and head again to Wendover," the memorandum says.
Rasband arrived at a Goldenwest Credit score Union in Kaysville in a "heavy disguise and ambushed an harmless financial institution teller with a gun as she opened the financial institution," the memorandum says. He led the teller to the credit score union's vault, and he later made off with $23,300.
"Over the subsequent six weeks, Mr. Rasband tried, by means of his self-perceived mind and ability, to earn again all of his playing losses," the memorandum says. "On the finish of six weeks, Mr. Rasband was proper again the place he had been the morning of his first financial institution theft — penniless."
Rasband determined to play his luck once more, pondering that he would have the ability to recoup his playing losses on the on line casino. He robbed the Utah First Credit score Union in Farmington in an analogous solution to the primary, although he and a teller needed to look ahead to a second worker to reach in an effort to open the vault, in accordance with the memorandum.
Nonetheless, as he was working away from the financial institution with a bag of cash, a dye pack exploded. Rasband dropped the bag of money, which additionally contained his gun, and he ran away. Police recognized Rasband as a suspect nearly instantly, as he had lawfully bought the gun at a Cabela's in Farmington and registered it in his personal identify, the memorandum says.
Rasband was initially charged in state court docket with one rely of aggravated theft in reference to the March theft in Farmington. Nonetheless, prosecutors moved to dismiss the case after Rasband was indicted in federal court docket.
Courtroom information point out that Rasband, who as of Thursday was nonetheless in Weber County Jail custody, was ordered to pay $23,300 in restitution in reference to the Kaysville theft. He's additionally ordered to forfeit a Ruger 9 mm handgun.
After his jail sentence, which court docket information say will doubtless be served at a Colorado facility, Rasband might be beneath supervised launch for 3 years.