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Man gets 31 years for robbing Ind. casino winners

CINCINNATI #8212; One of two men found guilty of multiple charges of robbing Indiana casino winners has been sentenced to 31 years in prison in Ohio.A Hamilton County prosecutor#146;s spokeswoman says 36-year-old Kenyatta Erkins was sentenced Wednesday in Cincinnati.Erkins was arrested with another man and a woman last October in an undercover operation. Prosecutors say they 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.Erkins was found guilty of nearly a dozen charges including aggravated robbery, conspiracy to robbery, robbery and felonious assault.A message was left for his attorney.Sentencing was postponed for the other man. Thirty-four-year-old Ugbe Ojile is in the hospital. The reason was not released.