Bellagio Is Site of $61K Chip Theft, Suspect Due in Las Vegas Court
A 28-year-old adult male is scheduled to come out inwards Las Vegas judicature today for allegedly stealing some $61,000 worth of gambling casino chips. It took position at the Bellagio deuce months agone on the Strip.
The suspect, Clayton Bollier, was spotted at Mandalay Bay Casino on Mon for alleged trespassing. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) officers were alerted.
He was apprehended past Metro law for the micro chip theft. His specific charges were not immediately available.
Authorities arrested him for a June 7 incident when he allegedly picked upwards a bag containing casino chips at the Bellagio cassino floor. It was left on a one-armed bandit machine.
He was seen inward surveillance video taking the bag, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Bollier was in Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker tournament, he told LVMPD officers. It ran 'tween May 31 and July 20.
Before his court of law appearance, he remained at the Kenneth Bancroft Clark County Detention Center on Thursday morning. Bail was readiness at $2,000. It could be adjusted in judicature proceedings.
Prior Chip Thief
Starting in May, LVMPD officers were on the lurch for another adult male who was suspected of repeatedly stealing casino chips from at least unity local gaming venue. The thefts took put fin times since last-place November.
Metro police released a video of the suspect, as good as a still photograph. It is unknown if he was of all time arrested.
The person of interest inward this law-breaking was described as existence a Shirley Temple male, betwixt 30 and 40 years old, well-nigh 6-foot-1 in height, and weighing some 185 pounds, constabulary have got told local media.
Police inward May did non describe from which gaming properties the chips were stolen. They only when said the thefts took localize inward the 2000 cube of South Las Vegas Boulevard, which suggests it may live The Strat.
No word either on how often inward chips were swiped inwards the repeated thefts.
This surmise had a similar pattern after walking onto the gaming floor. He grabbed the chips from a gaming tabular array before fleeing the casino, KVVU, a local TV station, reported.
Earlier Chip Thefts
Nationwide and globally, chips have got been stolen from a variety of locations.
In May 2021, for example, a reputed Las Vegas crew fellow member was arrested for allegedly stealing a safe containing $750,000 in hard currency and $250,000 inward poker game chips from the home of pro salamander player Chad Power.
The suspect, Brock Brewer, 32, and at to the lowest degree ane other man allegedly followed Power from a Las Vegas casino to his Henderson, Nev. residence.
The duo returned on Feb. 10, 2021, when they allegedly bust into the abode through and through a backrest door when nobody was home. They stole the safe before fleeing via the look door, police force said.
Power was playing stove poker at the Strip’s Aria Hotel & Casino when the break-in took place, constabulary told KVVU.
Also, inward 2019, Samuel Stovall, 31, was supercharged for allegedly stealing $16,000 worth of chips from the Horseshoe Casino Baltimore.
It was non directly known how the charges against Stovall and Brewer were resolved in court.
Elsewhere, also inwards 2019, a capital of Singapore jurist sentenced Ding Zhipeng to about 10 months in prison and fined the ex-Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) dealer S$12,000 (US $8,856) for the theft of some S$77,000 (US $56,826) worth of chips.
He had worked as a dealer at RWS from July 2017 to around the time of his arrest. The serial publication of thefts took position starting inwards May or June 2018, and were uncovered by authorities inwards November of 2018.