One adult female was inwards custody, and another appeared to be on the slack after a Dominicus night holdup at Magic Diamond Casino. It is placed inwards Billings, Montana.
Police said that both women took voice inward the robbery. One of them shot a handgun into the air, police force add. No ace was injured.
After the holdup, the ii women fled from the gambling casino in a dark car, constabulary said. The vehicle later was placed turned of King Avenue East, which is a few miles out from the gaming property. Police did not draw the back suspect.
Billings police did non say forthwith whether the bandits were able-bodied to steal any money. Police did non determine charges on the apprehended suspect.
22-17368,Robbery Magic Diamond 1524 Main St, 2000hrs. Ofc's responded to a robbery involving 2 females. During the robbery, one jibe a handgun into the air. Suspects fled in a bluish automobile that was later located turned of Billie Jean King Ave E. One surmise inwards custody. No injuries. – Sgt Beck
— BillingsPD (@BillingsPD) March 21, 2022
Prior Casino Robberies
Casinos inward Billings were the sites of other robberies last year. In October, in that respect were a gambling casino robbery and attempted gambling casino robbery in the city. The robber fled with hard cash during I of the heists.
One holdup took come out at Bullwackers Lounge & Casino, according to KULR, a local TV station. type A sole, masked brigand gave a take note to a gambling casino worker. The employee register the notation and handed over hard currency to the robber.
The robber so fled. Police did not expose how a great deal money was stolen.
About 48 minutes earlier, possibly the same surmise tried to rob Lucky Lil’s Casino, also in Billings. The annotation said he had a gun and wanted money. But the employee refused to provide any cash. The surmise fled that casino, possibly impulsive off inward a car.
The deuce gaming properties are believed to live around a half-mile forth from to each one other.
A few days later, Billings’ Palms Grand Casino was the land site of another robbery. Two men entered the gambling casino brandishing firearms.
The duo so fled with an unrevealed amount of cash. It appears the later robbery and the to the highest degree recent ane are unrelated to the foremost II holdups, according to initial police reports.
Montana Decapitation
In still another unrelated incident, finally June a MT man, who decapitated a winning gambling casino participant in 2017, was sentenced to 65 years inwards prison house for deliberate homicide.
Donald Ray Cherry, 34, was presumption the prison sentence inward the Yellowstone River County Courthouse inwards Billings for the killing of Myron Charles Wesley Knight. The dying was connected to a robbery after the bandits met Knight at I of the Lil’s Casino locations in Montana.
Cherry and a indorsement defendant, Jeffery Glen Haverty, 37, murdered Knight with a hatchet, law said. They also decapitated him piece they were at a encampment nigh the casino, police claim.
Knight’s headless personify later was found on a grease trail nigh the transient camp. After the decapitation, Cherry allegedly hid Knight’s remains. His head was found 30 feet away. It was wrapped in a towel under a cumulus of leaves.
A medical tester said that Knight was in all probability allay live when they started knifelike his lead off. Cherry later admitted inward court of justice he and Haverty robbed and killed Knight.
The men were regulars at the casino. They knew to each one other before the fateful incident.