Bellagio Biker Bandit. (1 Viewer)

Interesting read. There was a link to a similar, or perhaps the same story on CNN earlier today but I didn't have time to click on it. Thanks for sharing.
 
Interesting story. Didn't know this happened. Only thing I despise is how Rolling Stone glamorizes these criminals.
 
Only thing I despise is how Rolling Stone glamorizes these criminals.
Except when they completely take the word of a supposed victim who totally made it up and do almost no independent fact checking out of fear of hurting the "victim"'s feelings.
 
Except when they completely take the word of a supposed victim who totally made it up and do almost no independent fact checking out of fear of hurting the "victim"'s feelings.

Absolutely. Rolling Stone isn't credible anymore. Isn't it owned by a Chinese company and involved in a ton of lawsuits?
 
Isn't it owned by a Chinese company and involved in a ton of lawsuits?
I don't know the ownership structure (and I'm too lazy to look it up), but I do know they're getting their clock cleaned over the UVA scandal.
 
I don't know the ownership structure (and I'm too lazy to look it up), but I do know they're getting their clock cleaned over the UVA scandal.

I think 50% of it is owned by a Chinese billionaire's son.......
 
I lived in Vegas when this happened and, for such a brilliantly simple robbery plan, this kid was an IDIOT. As mentioned, the majority of the chips were $25,000 "cranberries" (so named because of their design), and he couldn't liquidate them. He even went as far as to create a twoplustwo forum account (a poker strategy site) under the name "OceanSpray" (get it? cranberries!) and asked in the least subtle ways possible how one would "hypothetically" turn those chips to cash. Seriously. I'm paraphrasing here, but his posts were along the lines of:

"Say that someone 'happened' to come across a bunch of high-denomination ($25,000) chips. How would they be able to cash them in?" Again, under the name "OceanSpray".

So he decided to try and launder them by buying into high-stakes poker games, except he was getting CRUSHED. I was never a super-high-roller or anything, but even some of the guys at MY stakes knew who he was before he got arrested. Lots of high-stakes guys knew, but nobody said anything because he was hemorrhaging chips every time he bought in. Cops knew who he was for weeks beforehand, but since he was so diligently building a case against himself, they just accrued more and more evidence until it became a slam dunk.

After all that, he tried playing the, "you can't do this to me, my dad's a judge!" card. Said dad was just up for re-election though, and couldn't afford the bad PR, so he threw him under the bus in every interview he took.

Edit: Actually read the article. So my post isn't really adding much. Lesson learned, lol.
 
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Biker thief steals 1.5m in tournament chips, would have been a great headline.

The pics on the RS article shows a stack of Bellagio Tournament chips.
 
Although it is funny to think that if the kid wasn't such a moron he probably would have gotten away with it.


My philosophy is, once you've crossed the line into stealing. The moron part is a given.
 
My philosophy is, if you can make a living stealing from casinos, be prepared for the penalties if you're caught, but you won't get much scorn from me.
 
My philosophy is, if you can make a living stealing from casinos, be prepared for the penalties if you're caught, but you won't get much scorn from me.
Really depends on the "thief" and what's being "stolen". I doubt anyone here has an issue with people harvesting racks and racks of quarters from a casino yet some of those same guys will turn their nose up at people who take a few racks along with the chips even though its highly unlikely getting caught doing either one would result in the authorities being notified.

Some will say they are glad the moron got caught but do those same guys watch Oceans Eleven and root for Terry Benedict? :)
 
Really depends on the "thief" and what's being "stolen". I doubt anyone here has an issue with people harvesting racks and racks of quarters from a casino yet some of those same guys will turn their nose up at people who take a few racks along with the chips even though its highly unlikely getting caught doing either one would result in the authorities being notified.

Some will say they are glad the moron got caught but do those same guys watch Oceans Eleven and root for Terry Benedict? :)
I hear you there. I think we all draw our own lines somewhere. I'm fine with that as long as people are willing to own up to their own arbitrarily drawn (and often hypocritical) lines.
 

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