Ohioan gets 35 years for robbing Ind. casino winners

CINCINNATI (AP) — The last of three people convicted of robbing Indiana casino winners has been sentenced to 35 years in prison in Ohio.

Thirty-four-year-old Ugbe Ojile was sentenced today in Cincinnati.

The Cincinnati man was arrested with another man and a woman last October in an undercover operation. Prosecutors say the trio followed riverboat casino patrons back to Ohio from neighboring Indiana and robbed them at gunpoint. There were at least a dozen robberies over several months.

Ojile was found guilty of more than a dozen charges including aggravated robbery, robbery, aggravated burglary and felonious assault.

The other man was sentenced to 31 years in prison. The woman was sentenced to three years.

Ojile’s lawyer planned to appeal.