February 27, 2026 – LOS ANGELES, CA – A San Fernando Valley man was sentenced on Thursday to 199 months in federal 
prison for committing armed robberies of smoke shops, donut shops, and convenience stores in Los Angeles and Orange counties during a two-week crime spree in early 2024.
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Antonio Lamar Bland, 36, of North Hollywood, was sentenced by United States District Judge John A. Kronstadt, who also ordered him to pay $17,829 in restitution.
Bland, who has been in federal custody since May 2024, pleaded guilty in November 2025 to one count of interference with commerce by robbery (Hobbs Act) and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of, and during and in relation to, a crime of violence.
From January 29, 2024, to February 14, 2024, Bland and co-defendants Ronnie Tucker, 24, of Long Beach, Abigail Luckey, 50, of North Hollywood, robbed 12 businesses in Los Angeles and Orange counties. The victimized 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 commercial robberies 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, a getaway driver, Luckey, waited outside for Bland and Tucker to complete the robbery and fled the scene in a white four-door sedan owned by Luckey.
During the armed robbery spree, on February 6, 2024, Bland and Luckey drove to Las Vegas and were legally married before returning to Southern California for their next robbery on February 8, 2024.
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 February 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, and later retrieved a firearm from the vehicle.
“[Bland] did it for the money; he did it for greed,” prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum. “Afterward, [Bland] bragged about his crimes, labeling a picture of himself ‘#RobberyGang.’”
Tucker and Luckey have pleaded guilty to felony charges in this case and await sentencing. They remain in federal custody.
The FBI and the Burbank Police Department investigated this matter with assistance from the Tustin, Torrance, Long Beach, Glendale, Pasadena, Los Angeles, and Downey police departments.
Assistant United States Attorney Diane B. Roldán of the Major Crimes Section is prosecuting this case.
Source: DOJ Release