BOISE — A 51-year-old man is headed to prison a year and four months after he and two other defendants robbed a Boise-based Idaho Central Credit Union (ICCU) at gunpoint on Feb. 27, 2025.

On Friday, District Judge James Cawthon sentenced Edward Dwayne Prescott to 35 years in prison with no possibility of parole for 15 years determinate and 20 years indeterminate, after a jury convicted Prescott on April 16 on one count of robbery, according to online court records.

During the caper, Prescott and his two fellow defendants, Eddie Fegurgur Belen and Brittaney Ellen Marcum, stole $1,500 from the credit union, according to an Ada County Prosecutor’s Office news release. The robbery happened at ICCU in the 700 block of East Parkcenter Boulevard in southeast Boise, according to a previous Idaho Press report.

Belen pleaded guilty to robbery on Aug. 22, 2025, and was sentenced to 40 years in prison, with 20 years determinate and 20 years indeterminate, according to online court records. Marcum was sentenced after a Sept. 4, 2025, trial conviction for felony robbery and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, with five years determinate and 15 years indeterminate.

Cawthon commented on the small monetary gain that resulted from the trio’s violent crime, according to the release.

“You take part in a plan that draws resources from the largest police department in the state of Idaho on one of Idaho’s busiest roads ... and all the angst associated with that and the law enforcement response,” Cawthon said to Prescott during the sentencing. “What do you think those officers were thinking as they were about to run into bullets? And all this for $1,500?”

The credit union robbery wasn’t the sole act that potentially put lives at risk.

“While one of Prescott’s accomplices, Eddie Belen, entered ICCU in a motorcycle helmet and mask, demanding cash from a teller at gunpoint. ... Marcum was creating a distraction (in) calling 911 to report a fake active shooter at a store (eight) miles away, hoping to pull police attention elsewhere,” the release states.

Prescott, on parole at the time, according to the release, planned the robbery and served as the getaway driver. Prescott fled on the motorcycle with Belen after the robbery, according to the release.

NOT SO FAST

“A Boise Police Department officer recognized the getaway motorcycle parked at a nearby apartment complex (with) the engine still warm,” the release states. “The bike’s owner told detectives he had sold the motorcycle to Prescott, a lead that days later would help identify him as the third suspect.”

Surveillance footage helped connect the rest, according to the release, showing Prescott and Belen together at a bar just after the robbery, then returning to a hotel where Marcum was waiting.

Once detectives found Marcum, she told them Prescott and Belen had left together on the motorcycle, and “claimed Belen had threatened her into making the false 911 call.”

Boise Police Detective Matthew Canfield commented on the active shooter call used to aid the robbery, according to the release.

“The decision to divert our officers by reporting a fake active shooter event put innocent lives at risk and wasted valuable emergency resources,” Canfield said.

Ada County Prosecutor Jan Bennetts took time to recognize the FBI’s efforts and how it “recognized the concerning nature of this incident and provided additional agents, analysts and resources” to aid in the identification and arrest of the three convicts. Bennetts also commented on Prescott, Belen and Marcum, according to the release.

“This was a coordinated, calculated robbery carried out by three people who thought they could outrun the law,” Bennetts said. “Prescott’s conviction closes out this case and ensures that everyone responsible for this crime has answered for it.”