Summerlin Unsolved Robbery: Alleged assailant seemingly attacks Carol Jimmerson from behind after the driver-side door of her G-Wagon is open. (Click on the image to go to the video on the LVMPD Facebook page.
By SA Barket
The classic 5Ws of any news story: who, what, when, where, why? (Plus the infamous Wiretap — the 6th W in this case.)
How does a wiretap play into this? Let me explain:
Tony D’Anna met me at Jeannie’s restaurant in Nordstrom’s at the Fashion Show Mall. While we were sitting there, his phone rang. It was Sigal Chattah. She explained to Tony that a high-ranking Nevada law enforcement officer had just informed her that he did not appreciate Sigal talking about him on a recording that he had of a wiretap.
To further the claim I laid out above, as a twist of fate, I had a personal conversation with that exact high-ranking Nevada law enforcement officer, and he did confirm the wiretap.
For now, this is all that I can disclose. Except to say that the wiretap is directly related to the 2021 robbery of Carol Jimmerson of Las Vegas. She’s a prominent businesswoman in her own right and is married to a very well-known and successful Las Vegas attorney.
The 5Ws that surround this very curious robbery are, upon my own information and belief and opinion, the following:
- Who: I learned that allegedly at least two men were associated in executing the robbery plan: Eric Hobbie and a man named “Avery.” I believe there is at least one other person connected to this robbery. Eric and Avery were only the two who allegedly pulled off the robbery. There were others behind the planning of this robbery.
- What: The robbery of a very expensive ring.
- When: March 2021
- Where: In the parking lot outside medical practice offices in Summerlin.
- Why: That’s the question, isn’t it? Why isn’t anyone looking into this except me, SA Barket? This was a big-deal robbery at the time. The media was all over it — local TV stations, print media … but now? It’s dead. It has withered on the vine. The question of why should not only try to answer the question of why this person, Carol Jimmerson, was robbed at this time. The questions also should be asked as to why have all reporting and references to this robbery disappeared from online archives? Why, instead of seemingly burying this event, isn’t the media following up on it? An arrest was made. Charges were filed. Court proceedings were initiated. But the case essentially was dropped. For a time. When the case initially was dropped, the prosecutor at the time, a woman named Danielle Pieper, also filed a Marcum Notice in open court (see PDF of that court document here: Page 3 on 02-09-2022 with the notation, “Marcum Notice Served in Open Court”), which sort of puts the case in suspended animation. (See arrest warrant and report here: PDF / Case No. 21-CR-012251). Shortly after Danielle Pieper dismissed the charges against Hobbie and filed the Marcum Notice in court, Gov. Joe Lombardo appointed her to the open Eighth Judicial District Court, Department 7 — on Feb. 28, 2023.
More details on the nuances of filing a Marcum Notice in Nevada: When the State of Nevada, represented by Danielle “Pieper” Chio, dropped the charges in the robbery, the court notations indicated that the matter was dismissed by the State pursuant to NRS 174.085, which notes that the State also filed a Marcum Notice in court the day the charges were dropped. A Marcum Notice allows the State to convene a grand jury to investigate the charges initially filed and allows the State to bring those charges to a grand jury for consideration for indictment.
The Marcum Notice, however, expires with the statute of limitations associated with the date the crime was committed. In this case, the robbery of Carol Jimmerson’s ring is documented as being committed on Feb. 23, 2021. The statute of limitations on robbery in the State of Nevada is four years, which means the statute of limitations as well as the Marcum Notice for this crime expired on Feb. 23, 2025.
The man identified by Carol Jimmerson as the getaway driver — Eric Hobbie — was charged with the following counts: 1) conspiracy to commit robbery, 2) battery with intent to commit robbery, 3) grand larceny. All three charges are Class B felonies in the State of Nevada.
However, after years of no action in this case, a few months before the Marcum Notice and the statute of limitations for the crime of robbery was to expire, Judicial Officer Jennifer Schwartz held a calendar call on Sept. 9, 2024. In Nevada courts, a calendar call is a brief, pre-trial hearing where the judge reviews the status of cases. A week later, on Sept. 16, 2024, the judge canceled a jury trial for the case. There was no further action on the case, and the Marcum Notice and the robbery charges related to the ring robbery ran out.
A month after that calendar call on Sept. 9, 2024, however, in October, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf Eric Hobbie by his attorneys on a separate case (See PDF here: Case No. C-23-374455-1) for the charges of two counts of “Conspiracy to Commit a Crime,” which, in a plea agreement, Hobbie agreed to plead guilty to those two counts. The court documents noted, “My decision to plead guilty is based upon the plea agreement in this case which is as follows:
- Both parties stipulate to a sentence of three hundred and sixty-four (364) days in the
Clark County Detention Center per count. - Both sentences are to run concurrent to each other and to Case No. 24-CR-081641. (I could not find any court records related to Case No. 24-CR-081641.)
On Oct. 16, 2024, Eric Hobbie’s guilty plea on these charges was accepted by the court, and Hobbie was sentenced to 364 days in jail — one day short of a year.
Here are some surveillance camera frame grabs of the Carol Jimmerson ring robbery and more detail:
Summerlin Unsolved Robbery: Alleged assailant approaches Carol Jimmerson from behind at her red Mercedes G-Wagon.
Summerlin Unsolved Robbery: Alleged assailant seemingly attacks Carol Jimmerson from behind after the driver-side door of her G-Wagon is open.
Summerlin Unsolved Robbery: Alleged assailant appears to flee.
Images above are frame grabs from an LVMPD Facebook video.
You can find the full video on this website here: Carol Jimmerson Ring Robbery Video
How the robbery allegedly played out:
You’d think this is a simple story about a simple robbery. On the surface, that’s what everyone seems to believe. But the story behind this “simple” robbery of an expensive ring from a woman’s hand has more depth and complexity than the finest cabernet. Lots of nuances, lots of different notes, a huge cast of characters.
On the surface let’s discuss the robbery itself. There allegedly were four involved in the actual robbery:
- The architect of the robbery
- The actual robber
- The lookout/getaway driver
- The victim, Carol Jimmerson
In 2021, Carol Jimmerson went to a medical appointment in Las Vegas’s Summerlin area. She parked her deep red, high-end Mercedes G-Wagon in an open parking lot at the medical center in a space that was one of the farthest away from the building, and went in for her appointment. She left the building after her appointment was over and walked back to her vehicle.
As she got to her G-Wagon, unlocked it and opened her door, a man came up from behind her, pinning her against the vehicle; she was half-in, half-out of the vehicle. A struggle ensued, and the man allegedly wrested away a very expensive diamond ring from her hand. The man then fled from Carol Jimmerson and her G-Wagon and jumped into a waiting vehicle, making his escape.
A relatively cut and dry case, right? All the appearance of the robbery being a crime of opportunity — a woman driving an expensive vehicle, wearing an expensive ring, just being at the wrong place at the wrong time.
But we believe that’s not what’s going on here. There’s much more to the story than initially meets the eye. In my opinion, it was a setup.