$8 million thief released on probation

Staff report

CINCINNATI

The mastermind of one of the largest thefts in northern Ohio was released from home confinement Wednesday to begin his three years of supervised release.

Roger L. Dillon, 29, was originally sentenced in July 2008 to eight years in federal prison for stealing nearly $8 million Nov. 26, 2007, from the Liberty office of AT Systems, an armored car company, where he was a driver and messenger.

Dillon was transferred from the Federal Correctional Institution in McKean, Pa., on May 27, 2014, to a halfway house supervised by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons’ Cincinnati Residential Re-entry Management Office, then put on home confinement from Nov. 6 until Wednesday.

A Bureau of Prisons spokesman said Dillon was released early because he got 236 days of credit for pre-sentence detention and 376 days of credit for good conduct in prison.

Dillon’s live-in girlfriend, Nicole Boyd, 31, was sentenced to five years in prison and released Nov. 2, 2012; and Dillon’s mother, Sharon Gregory, 55, got a three-year prison term and was released Dec. 31, 2009.

FBI agents arrested the trio and recovered all but $3,500 Dec. 2, 2007, in a mobile home in Pipestem, W.Va., after receipts found in Boyd’s abandoned pickup truck in Salem led them there.

All three defendants pleaded guilty before they were sentenced.