A casino cashier was also arrested after telling authorities she took 10 bricks of $50,000 from the vault and delivered the money to someone in a hospital parking lot. In that scam, Juan Gutierrez-Zambrano, 31, was charged with theft of $100,000 to $1 million, according to news reports.
In March, $500,000 was reported stolen from Monarch Casino in Black Hawk, the largest casino heist in Colorado history. Without providing any details, the story said the suspect faces a similar charge in Mesquite. Las Vegas Metro Police Department detectives found $850,000 of the money in an area home after tracking the vehicle involved in the theft, according to the report. The employee believed she was on the phone with the hotel’s owner, texting with her manager, and meeting with the owner’s attorney. The cage supervisor separated the money into four installments of $314,000, $350,000, $500,000, and three smaller deposits, then handed it over to a person at different off-site locations, according to the report citing court documents. The KLAS-TV story reported that someone contacted the casino cage claiming to be the owner and seeking cash. From the outside, you say, “How can that happen?” “An employee in the cage can walk out with $300,000, meet a guy she doesn’t know, and give him the cash? As an ex-surveillance guy who lives and breathes internal controls and procedures, I say there are a lot of gaps to fill in.
