Las Vegas Cops Search for Man Stealing Chips from Casino on Strip, Video Released

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers are on the prowl for a adult male who is suspected of stealing cassino ships from at least unity local gaming venue. The thefts experience taken come out v times since lastly November and the suspect remains at large.

Police did non distinguish from which gaming properties the chips were stolen. They only when said this hebdomad the thefts took place in the 2000 mental block of South Las Vegas Boulevard.

So far, no word on how often in chips have got been swiped.

Description Released by Cops

The person of interest inwards this law-breaking was described as existence a grim male, 'tween 30 and 40 years old, most 6-foot-1 in height, and weighing some 185 pounds, police force have got told local media.

The surmise has a similar pattern after walking onto the gaming floor. He grabs the chips from a gaming tabulate before fleeing the casino, KVVU, a local TV station, reported.

Those with selective information nearly the thefts are urged to middleman LVMPD Downtown Patrol Investigations.

Prior Chip Thefts

Nationwide and globally, chips experience gotten stolen from a change of locations.

Last May, for example, a reputed Las Vegas ring member was arrested for allegedly stealing a safe containing $750,000 inwards cash and $250,000 in stove poker chips from the rest home of pro poker participant Chad Power.

The suspect, Brock Brewer, 32, and at to the lowest degree ace other man, allegedly followed Power from a Las Vegas gambling casino to his Henderson, Nev. residence.

The duo returned on Feb. 10, 2021, when they allegedly stone-broke into the residence through a support door when nobody was home. They stole the safe before fleeing via a forepart door, police said.

Power was playing stove poker at the Strip’s Aria Hotel & Casino when the break-in took place, police force told KVVU.

Also, in 2019, Samuel Stovall, 31, was charged 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 inwards court.

Elsewhere, also in 2019, a Singapore Island judge sentenced Ding Zhipeng to about 10 months inward 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 virtually the clip of his arrest. The serial of thefts took shoes starting inwards May or June 2018 and were uncovered by surveillance authorities in Nov of 2018.