He said he couldn’t stop thinking about how he might not have made it home to his family that day. A security guard wrestled with the suspect for his loaded weapon during one of the heists. Jurors also heard from casino employees who said they are still haunted by their encounters with the robber.
They said he had a unique set of skills and knowledge about robberies as a law enforcement officer and used that to his advantage. Throughout the weeklong trial, prosecutors had portrayed Rogers as a gambling addict who had grown increasingly desperate under a crush of debt when the robberies targeting casinos off the Las Vegas Strip began. Caleb Rogers carried out the other two heists alone, prosecutors said. Josiah Rogers said he participated only in that robbery.
The case went to the jury Thursday shortly after Rogers’ younger brother testified against him for more than three hours, painting a clear picture for the jurors of how the two successfully pulled off the first heist in the series. The department said it had no comment on Rogers’ conviction. A spokesperson for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said after the verdict that Rogers’ future at the department “will be determined at the conclusion” of an internal investigation.
