Usually when you are caught by an undercover you are fucked and in the cases I have seen in CT there was almost all guilty pleas. Entrapment defenses rarely work. Video and audio surveillance is likely- in public its legal. It’s like walking into rob a convenience store or set a fire in a condo building. Count on the event being taped. Absolutely no difference on a public street. Tomassi also has some criminal record of embezzlement and fraud so his ass is likely going DOWN. Here the punishment would likely not be incarceration unless there is some violation of probation or terms of his prior sentence. He will have a further record, fines, probation, community service, if it was here.