A San Fernando Valley man was sentenced Thursday, Feb. 26 to 16 years, seven months in federal prison for committing armed robberies of smoke shops, donut shops and convenience stores in Los Angeles and Orange counties in early 2024 — a crime spree interrupted when he drove to Las Vegas to marry a co-defendant.
Antonio Lamar Bland, 36, of North Hollywood, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt, who also ordered him to pay $17,829 in restitution.
Bland pleaded guilty in November 2025 in Los Angeles federal court to one count of interference with commerce by robbery (known as a Hobbs Act offense) and one count of brandishing a firearm in a crime of violence.
From Jan. 29, 2024 to Valentine’s Day of the same year, Bland and co- defendants Ronnie Tucker, 24, of Long Beach, and Abigail Luckey, 50, of North Hollywood, robbed a dozen businesses in Los Angeles and Orange counties. The businesses were one smoke shop in Tustin, nine 7-Eleven stores in North Hollywood, Burbank, Torrance, Van Nuys, Long Beach, Glendale and Pasadena, and two donut shops in Los Angeles and Downey.
The heists typically occurred late at night and usually involved Bland and Tucker, who entered each business wearing hooded sweatshirts and face masks. In several of the robberies, Luckey waited outside for Bland and Tucker to complete the robbery and fled the scene in a white four-door sedan owned and driven by the woman.
During the armed robbery spree, on Feb. 6, 2024, Bland and Luckey drove to Las Vegas and were legally married before returning to Southern California for their next robbery two days later.
The armed robbery spree ended after Bland, Tucker and Luckey committed an attempted robbery of a donut shop in Downey during the early morning hours of Feb. 14, 2024, when a store employee in self-defense fired a handgun during the crime, hitting a wall of the building.
After the employee fired the weapon, Bland and Tucker ran out of the store. Law enforcement witnessed the attempted armed robbery and, shortly afterward, pulled over a car containing Bland, Tucker and Luckey, then later retrieved a firearm from the vehicle.
Tucker and Luckey have pleaded guilty to felony charges in the case and await sentencing.
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