The defense attorney for the man accused of masterminding a 2007 heist at Soboba Casino told jurors Tuesday that they should find his client guilty of 10 of the 12 felony charges he faces.

But he said two charges of kidnapping for robbery don't add up, and that the Riverside County district attorney's office was overreaching.

The prosecutor argued that Rolando Luda Ramos spend a month devising a plan to kidnap two surveillance agents and steal $1.5 million from the casino where he worked near San Jacinto, and that he had joked about it even before that.

"It was a plan of kidnapping for robbery," Riverside County Deputy District Attorney Lori Ronce said. "This wasn't a mishap in decision-making. This was thought out a month in advance."

Ramos, 27, and Eric Alan Magdaleno Aguilera, 25, accused of being the getaway driver, are on trial in a French Valley courtroom before separate juries.

Ramos' jury will begin deliberations today. In addition to kidnapping for robbery, he faces seven counts of robbery of more than $1.3 million and one count each of burglary, false imprisonment and use of tear gas.

Closing arguments before a separate jury are scheduled this morning for Aguilera, who is charged with the same 12 felonies. Authorities say he aided and abetted Ramos in the caper by driving him to Palm Springs and San Bernardino.

A third count of kidnapping for robbery against each man was dismissed Monday.

At dispute in the trial is whether duct taping two surveillance guards and taking them to another room amounted to kidnapping for the purpose of robbery. Those charges could carry a life sentence.

For the men to be found guilty, prosecutors must prove that the kidnapping moved someone a substantial distance and that it was not incidental to the robbery.

During her closing argument Tuesday, Ronce said Ramos bound the two guards where they wouldn't be detected by police, and that they were fearful for their lives.

"There were no flowers and music playing in the background. This was kidnapping for robbery," Ronce said. "He said he would kill everyone. This is serious business."

But Ramos's defense attorney, Richard Briones-Colman, said Ramos was not a master criminal. He said Ramos was a nerdy audio-visual technician who was inspired by the movie "Ocean's 11" and got carried away.

"Find him guilty of everything he did, but don't find him guilty of what he didn't do," Briones-Colman said. "He's not a monster or a freak. He's the weird guy who makes bad jokes."

Attorneys said that on Aug. 2, 2007, Ramos went inside the casino's surveillance trailer, pepper sprayed one surveillance agent and taped his arms and legs together.

Ramos then used a BB pistol to force two other surveillance guards into a back room, where he duct taped them back to back to a pole, apologizing for his actions, Ronce said.

He told them, "I know where you live," and leaned down and kissed a woman on the mouth, saying he always liked her, Ronce said.

"From his point of view that kiss wasn't intended to be mean or sexual," Briones-Colman argued. "He thought he was like the leading man in a movie, like a movie George Clooney would have done."

Ramos called for a security escort to take him to the vault, Briones-Colman said.

Then he waived the gun, shouting for everyone to get on the floor, loaded $1,581,800 into a duffle bag and called for Aguilera to pick him up.

Ramos was arrested after being traced by his cell phone to a Los Angeles-area hotel room. Authorities found wearing a wig, with $800,000 in cash, and high on cocaine, according to Riverside County sheriff's investigators.