A San Fernando Valley woman is set to be sentenced Thursday for acting as getaway driver in a series of armed robberies of smoke shops, donut shops and convenience stores in Los Angeles and Orange counties — a crime spree that was interrupted when she drove to Las Vegas to marry a co-defendant.
Abigail Luckey, 51, of North Hollywood, pleaded guilty in January in Los Angeles federal court to one count of interference with commerce by robbery and one count of attempted interference with commerce by robbery.
In her plea agreement, Luckey admitted to a robbery on Feb. 4, 2024, and an attempted robbery 10 days later that resulted in her arrest. She contests the other 10 robberies she is accused of participating in.
However, “cell phone location data pins defendant’s phone at all 12 robberies at the time and location of each robbery,” according to government sentencing papers. “Her car was photographed at eight of the robberies. Defendant obtained the gun, booked the robbery crew’s hotel room, and married one of the robbers in the middle of the spree.”
In arguing for a prison sentence of five years, three months, prosecutors wrote that Luckey “was the getaway driver for each of the robbery crew’s dangerous heists from Jan. 29 to Feb. 14, 2024, and her sentence should reflect that culpability.”
Luckey’s recommended sentence is less than a third of co-defendant and husband Antonio Bland’s 199-month sentence.
Bland, 36, also of North Hollywood, was sentenced in February to 16 years, seven months in federal prison for running the three-person crime ring. He was also ordered to pay $17,829 in restitution to the 14 victims of the crimes.
Bland pleaded guilty in November 2025 to one count of interference with commerce by robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm in a crime of violence.
In January and February of 2024, Bland, Luckey and co-defendant Ronnie Tucker, 24, of Long Beach, robbed a dozen Southland businesses. The victimized businesses were one smoke shop in Tustin, nine 7-Eleven stores in North Hollywood, Burbank, Torrance, Van Nuys, Long Beach, Glendale and Pasadena, and two donut shops in Los Angeles and Downey.
Prosecutors said the crew threatened the lives of 14 victims at gunpoint. One robbery victim from Glendale recalled a gun being pointed “directly at my face. I was certain that my life was about to end,” he said in court papers.
The robbery crew’s headquarters was a room at the Studio Lodge Hotel in North Hollywood, fraudulently rented by Luckey using her deceased previous husband’s driver’s license and forged signature, federal prosecutors said.
After renting the room, a gun was needed. According to court papers, on Jan. 24, 2024, a Las Vegas resident called police to report that his ex-girlfriend, Luckey, had come to his apartment asking for his black Taurus 9mm pistol. As he was showing her the gun, Luckey snatched it away and ran out of the apartment, prosecutors contend.
Five days later, the robberies began.
The heists typically occurred late at night and usually involved Bland and Tucker who entered each business wearing hooded sweatshirts and face masks. In several of the robberies, Luckey waited outside for her crime partners to complete the theft before they fled the scene in a white Chevy Cruze owned and driven by the woman, prosecutors said.
During the armed robbery spree, on Feb. 6, 2024, Luckey and Bland drove to Las Vegas and were legally married before returning to Southern California for their next robbery two days later.
The robberies ended after Bland, Tucker and Luckey committed an attempted robbery of a donut shop in Downey during the early morning hours of Feb. 14, 2024, when a store employee in self-defense fired a handgun during the crime, hitting a wall of the building.
After the employee fired the weapon, Bland and Tucker ran out of the store. Law enforcement witnessed the attempted armed robbery and, shortly afterward, pulled over a car containing the three defendants, and later retrieved a firearm from the vehicle.
Tucker also pleaded guilty to felony charges in the case and await sentencing.