Police: Las Vegas casino chip heist may total $2M

5teamparlay · Dec 14, 2010

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Police: Las Vegas casino chip heist may total $2M

The Associated Press
Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 | 10:47 a.m.
Las Vegas police are looking for an armed casino bandit who made off on a motorcycle with perhaps $2 million worth of gambling chips from the posh Bellagio hotel-casino.
Las Vegas police Lt. Clinton Nichols told The Associated Press that detectives were reviewing video and camera images of the robbery a little before 4 a.m. Tuesday at the Las Vegas Strip resort.
No shots were fired and no one was injured.
Nichols calls the robbery about as quick as you can do it.
He says the man wore a full-face motorcycle helmet and leather jacket.
He went to the casino pit area, displayed the gun, demanded chips, and fled the casino before speeding away on Flamingo Road on a black sport-style motorcycle.

Betallsports · Dec 14, 2010

Love stuff like this.....

JudgeWapner · Dec 14, 2010

Let's see who tries to pay their tab in chips.

msubulldog · Dec 14, 2010

any of owr members who live in vegas on a motorcycle at bellagio early this morning. he must have had houston +3 1/2 last night or maybe had baltimore and thought it was time to try heist as luck was running great..

Betallsports · Dec 14, 2010

Judge Wapner said:
Let's see who tries to pay their tab in chips.

T, I need for you to cash some Chips the next time you're in Vegas.

Nothing to do with this Story )^&&

JudgeWapner · Dec 14, 2010

Lmao.

DwayneBowe · Dec 14, 2010

These guys make it look easy stealing this stuff.

Betallsports · Dec 14, 2010

Dwayne Bowe said:
These guys make it look easy stealing this stuff.

It Really wasn't that hard.... ( So I heard ) :grandmais

bigtex · Dec 14, 2010

It beats card counting.

I can hardly wait for the Movie.

Another D. B. Cooper maybe?

BAGIANT · Dec 14, 2010

I remember a guy walking into the Sahara who was dressed in black with a black stetson hat on that sort of covered his face. He went to the cashiers cage after passing me, and since they suspected they were stolen $100 chips, they stalled him for as long as possible. Security surrounded the guy while he was at the cage, but he was cool as a cucumber and just silently demanded his money.

A pit boss I knew came up next to me and I asked him what was going on. He told me about the stolen chips, and although they were sure he wasn't involved with the theft, they were positive that he was hired to cash in the chips for a percentage. He must have been at the cage for 45 minutes until they finally gave him the money when he threatened to call gaming.

WharfRat+ · Dec 14, 2010

Any way he'll be able to cash them? Assume they are $1k or $5k chips. How would you go about turning those into cash.

charliepeete · Dec 14, 2010

i have good information that the chips will be disposed of at the following place:

http://www.gspawn.com/

douglas · Dec 14, 2010

back in the day , always wanted to do a casino .............not the cage .........on the transfer ........

gijoe · Dec 14, 2010

the same thing happen last year at the Hilton. Guy got away on a motorcycle.

bigbet1234 · Dec 14, 2010

So, how would you fence something like this? It's gonna take forever to cash that much in chips in without raising eyebrows

SportSavant · Dec 14, 2010

gijoe said:
the same thing happen last year at the Hilton. Guy got away on a motorcycle.

i remember this incident last year.

Objection · Dec 14, 2010

some of the chips are 25K chips what do you do with those?

NES · Dec 14, 2010

seems like the chips would have chips in them, i mean even regular currency has those strips. Seems like casinos would get with the times.

NES · Dec 14, 2010

I'd go into the poor area and trade em for foodstamps

Betallsports · Dec 14, 2010

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