New Mexico Casino Winner Violently Robbed, Suspects in Jail

A adult male and adult female remain incarcerated this week after they were arrested for the Apr pistol-whipping and holdup of a Sunland Mungo Park Racetrack & Casino winner.

John Anthony Brinsfield, 49, and Jamie Marie Cowger, 46, both of Las Cruces, New Mexico, from each one were indicted on an aggravated robbery charge.

Police revealed that Cowger began to travel along the unnamed victim after she won $3,500 at the New Mexico gaming dimension on Apr 30.

She left hand the casino about an minute after hitting the jackpot. The couple and so tailed her for nearly IX miles to a hotel on South Desert Boulevard in El Paso, Texas.

She had just parked her car at the hotel when she spotted another vehicle impulsive at the parking lot.

Brinsfield so exited his vehicle and approached the victim. He pulled out a firearm and demanded her purse.

It contained the $3,500 inwards profits and another $700.

Victim Asked Robber to Wait

Initially, she asked him to wait, so she could take a electric cell sound from the purse.

But he was impatient.

Brinsfield so pointed the gun toward the left hand portion of her head. Again, he ordered her to grow over the purse.

But she wanted to take away the phone first.

Brinsfield and so allegedly shoved her onto the ground. He struck her on the face with the gun, constabulary said.

At that point, she allow him get the purse. He and so fled to the awaiting vehicle, described as a Chevrolet Trailblazer, which was driven by a second person. It was goaded away.

The entire incident took property over well-nigh Little Joe minutes. Her injuries didn’t come out to be life-threatening.

The hotel and cassino were capable to bring home the bacon constabulary officers surveillance picture to assist key out the suspects.

But Brinsfield’s human face was covered because he was wearing a dim mask during the holdup, constabulary said.

Female Suspect Was Teacher

It turns out, Cowger formerly was a teacher inward Las Cruces. She also received a master’s degree.

Cowger was arrested on Aug 18 and was set-aside(p) at the El Paso County Jail. Her bond was go down at $60K.

Last month, El Paso law pulled over a vehicle inwards which was Brinsfield. It had the legal injury plates, so police stopped-up(a) it.

In the vehicle, police found 285 suspected fentanyl pills and a firearm, prosecutors said.

Brinsfield was charged with unlawful ownership of small-arm by a felon and manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance, according to the El Paso Times.

He was booked at the El Paso Jail Annex. Brinsfield’s bond ab initio was exercise set at $400K. It later was lowered to $95K.

Before his arrest, he was a self-employed expression worker.

The cases against both suspects were turned to over to local prosecutors.

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