Posted on 06/15/2020 2:40:48 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
A security guard at Aqueduct Racetrack was charged Monday as the inside man in the armed heist of more than $280,000 in gamblers lost wagers as the feds alleged that he was busted with one of the crooks in another robbery more than 20 years ago.
Lafayette Morrison was charged with providing Lamel Miller and another accomplice with information about when and where the money would be taken to the vault at the Queens racetrack following the lucrative Gotham Day races on March 7.
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Just another poor, oppressed black guy. Give him a break.
I liked that movie. Quite interesting.
Willem Dafoe even has a costarring role in it.
A good Ironside episode about inside people and stealing from the track.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0612426/
FTA: Phone records also show that Miller called Morrison after he was arrested following a pair of traffic stops in 2017 and 2019, according to court papers.
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In addition, court papers say, Morrison and Miller used a pair of burner cellphones that Miller bought one day before the robbery to speak to each other 38 times.
One of those conversations took place about 30 minutes ahead of the caper, when surveillance video allegedly captured Morrison walking out of the racetrack and calling Miller
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