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November 23rd 2006
Convicted Raymer robber is released early from prison
A man who famously tried to rob the 2004 World Series of Poker champion Greg Raymer has been paroled early from prison after providing key information in an unrelated murder case.
In December 2004, in one of the most captivating non-poker poker stories of the last few years, Deen Cassim and accomplice Kevin Joy tried to rob Greg Raymer outside his hotel room in the Bellagio. The men waited for him in the corridor outside his suite and tried to rob him of the estimated $150,000 in cash and poker chips he brought with him from the poker room.
But Raymer, in a story that thrilled the poker world, fought back against his assailants, and despite Cassim pulling out a gun, Raymer continued to fight, pushing Joy to the floor, and forcing the men to flee empty handed.
Cassim and Joy were both able to escape from the casino and remained undetected for five months before an anonymous tip-off led police to a gun-show in San Diego, where the two men were selling toy helicopters.
Raymer identified Deen Cassim as the man who had pulled the gun on him and Cassim was later sentenced to between three and twelve years in prison. But luckily for Cassim, whilst in prison he was offered to participate in a murder-for-hire plot, and rather than participate he decided to go undercover for the police in exchange for his early release.
The offer had to do with a high profile murder case involving famous husband-and-wife bodybuilders Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan. The couple were accused of the violent murder of their personal assistant Melissa James, whose brutalised body was found in the boot of Ryan’s burnt out car, somewhere in the Nevada desert.
The case is still in the courts, and Cassim’s information is likely to prove vital to the outcome. He claimed that whilst in prison he was contacted Nelson Brady Jnr, an associate of Craig Titus, with a view to murdering key witnesses in the case against Titus and his wife. Cassim contacted the police and was instructed to wear a wire, following which it became clear that the murder plot was very real, with former friends and associates of Titus and Ryan: Anthony Gross, Megan Pierson Foley and Jeremy Foley the targets for elimination.
For the information he provided Cassim was released early from his jail sentence. Nelson Brady Jnr was charged with three counts of solicitation to murder.
Submitted: 23/11/2006 15:00:19
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