New Jersey State Police revealed on Mon they experience identified the pair who “forcefully” robbed players twice at Atlantic City gaming properties. The to the highest degree recent theft took come in on Friday. The prior ane was inwards June.

At nigh 10:40 pm Friday, a male person surmise stole well-nigh $12,000 from a participant at Caesars Hotel and Casino, constabulary said. The player was by a one-armed bandit simple machine when the theft took place.

The suspect and then fled to a nearby vehicle. group A adult female accomplice drove chisel the gondola away.

Neither surmise was named past state police on Monday. But troopers appear to know who they are.

State police force released descriptions and surveillance photos of the couple. The adult male is grim and nearly 6-feet tall. He has dreadlocks and a stocky build, according to the description.

The female is white. She has browned fuzz and wore glasses, nation police force said.

It is believed the same distich were in arrears another robbery at nearly 1:30 am on June 15. While at Resorts Hotel and Casino, the piece stole money from a player sitting at a slot machine. State law said the swag totaled $15,000.

The adult male also fled to a nearby car. It too was goaded by the adult female accomplice, law said.

The machine used by the suspects was believed to follow a gray Toyota sedan, according to The Press of Atlantic City.

In ace incident, the manly surmise appears to follow wearing redness clothes. The adult female appears to follow wearing morose clothes.

Skeptical Comments Online

A commonwealth law Facebook brand describing the incidents led to many comments from skeptical social media posters.

For instance, I poster, identified as Marty Victor, said, “I can’t figure come out how they got come out of the cassino with the amount of security there.”

Another poster, identified as Gospel According to John Cosgriff, said, “Something doesn’t add up, they just happened to bump deuce victims with 12K and 15K hard currency on them spell playing expansion slot machines? And security department couldn’t snap them?”

The incident also led another poster, identified as Tabitha Rockafellow Ricicki, to comment, “They experience to make someone on the within tipping them away on magnanimous winners.”

Prior Attempted Robbery

In an unrelated incident, inwards April a New Jersey piece was sentenced to prison house for ogdoad years for an attempted armed robbery of a expansion slot player. The incident took put at Bally’s Atlantic Ocean City Hotel & Casino inwards 2020.

Shawn P. Applewhite, 25, of Marlton, will non be eligible for parole until he serves at least heptad years of the sentence, Atlantic County Superior Margaret Court Judge Donna M. Elizabeth Taylor ruled.

Applewhite also must ne'er get into another gambling casino inwards the state. Nor can he feature future contact lens with the victim, the justice ordered.

Applewhite pled hangdog to first-degree robbery on March 21. Last August, he was indicted by a grand jury on both first-degree robbery as comfortably as third-degree possession of a weapon for an wrongful aim charges. The secondment point appeared to have been dropped.