As reported by: Fort Mill Times
Behind bars for the past four years, Rodney Landingham has been mourning the charmed life he once had playing football for the Nevada Wolf Pack.

Like those in a number of recent high profile criminal cases in Reno, he says he lost everything because of his love affair with the euphoria he felt winning blackjack and craps games that led him to commit an armed robbery spree to pay off his gambling debts.

"Gambling central was only a few blocks away from school," Landingham said. "It was a lifestyle I never experienced. It was a fantasy, like Disneyland. And I was right up the street from it.

"I was at the top, and now, I'm at the bottom," he said in an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal. "It's hard to accept. I'm in a prison cell locked up wondering what the hell happened. It was gambling."

Landingham is serving a four-year minimum sentence for two Reno convenience store armed robberies. Next year, he likely will be transferred to federal prison to begin serving a 14-year term for two bank robberies.
Article By: Fort Mill Times