Couple Had Vegas Wedding amid Alleged ‘Armed Robbery Spree' and Got Caught on Valentine’s Day. Now They Could Face Years Behind Bars

Last year, a California couple were committing a string of robberies in the state when they decided to get hitched in Las Vegas, police say — but the honeymoon didn’t last long.

The pair were arrested on Valentine’s Day 2024, just days after tying the knot. Now, more than a year later, they have been indicted on several charges related to the crimes, along with their alleged partner in the “armed robbery spree,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced in a news release on Thursday, Feb. 20.

The North Hollywood couple — Antonio Lamar Bland and Abigail Luckey — and their alleged partner in the “crime spree,” Ronnie Tucker, were charged with 12 counts related to the early 2024 robberies in a superseding indictment on Wednesday, Feb. 19.

During the two-week crime spree, which lasted from Jan. 29 to Feb. 14, 2024, the trio robbed 12 businesses in the Los Angeles and Orange counties, including nine 7-Eleven stores, a smoke shop and two doughnut shops — one of which marked their final robbery, according to police.

The robbers typically struck at night, with Bland, 36, and Tucker, 23, entering each place in hooded sweatshirts and face masks, officials said. In several of the incidents, Luckey, 49, is said to have acted as the getaway driver.

The early 2024 crime spree allegedly took the trio to Tustin, Torrance, Pasadena, L.A., Downey and several more California cities — and during a daylong pause, took Bland and Abigail Luckey to Las Vegas to tie the knot.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the couple split for Sin City amid the robbery spree, driving to the Wedding Capital of the World to get married on Feb. 6, 2024, before returning to California to commit their next robbery two days later.

After about a week of marriage, the couple celebrated their first Valentine’s Day as newlyweds by allegedly attempting to rob a Downey doughnut shop in what quickly became the bookmark to their crime spree, per police.

Bland and Tucker ran into trouble when an employee “retrieved his own firearm to defend himself,” firing at least one shot that hit the wall of the building, officials said. The duo ran out of the store but, because law enforcement had witnessed the attempted robbery, authorities were able to locate and pull over the trio shortly after. A firearm was recovered from their vehicle.

A year after their alleged crime spree was thwarted, Bland, Luckey and Tucker were each charged by a federal grand jury with one count of conspiracy to commit interference with commerce by robbery under the Hobbs Act, which criminalizes robbery or extortion affecting interstate commerce, plus three counts of Hobbs Act robbery and one count of attempted Hobbs Act robbery.

Tucker and Bland have also been charged with one additional count of Hobbs Act robbery and four counts of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, officials said.

Bland is also charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of being a felon in possession of ammunition, as he was not legally allowed to possess a firearm in February 2024 due to “previous felony convictions in Los Angeles Superior Court for carjacking and possession of drugs in prison,” per the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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Bland, Luckey and Tucker have been in federal custody since last year, and there is a May 6 trial date scheduled in this case, officials said.

If convicted of all charges, the trio face a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison for each Hobbs Act robbery-related count, and Bland and Tucker each face a statutory minimum sentence of seven years for each count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.

Bland, meanwhile, could face up to 15 years in federal prison for each of his additional counts.