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Following armed robbery at Indiana casino, employee resigns claiming unsafe workplace

March 4, 2024 · 8:30pm ET | 5:30pm PT
  • Alexis Martin, WXIX-TV

A Hollywood Casino employee resigned over safety concerns after she said she was held at gunpoint during an armed robbery on March 2.

Erica Fryer was working when a suspect, identified by the Dearborn County Sheriff’s Office as 39-year-old Daniel Birdseye, walked up to where she was working.

“I turned around to relook and the guy was standing there next to me with a gun, and he goes, ‘Open the f****** drawers now. I’m not playing,’” Fryer said.

She said after seeing the gun, she opened the drawer and Birdseye hit their registers. Fryer said the 39-year-old had a bag that he was stuffing money into.