A girl has been arrested by Las Vegas police after allegedly being a part of a rip-off that stole $750,000 from Sam’s Town Casino final June.
Rosa Barria, 36, was taken into custody final week for allegedly collaborating within the scheme. Authorities say {that a} supervisor within the on line casino cashier’s cage acquired a telephone name on June 8 of final 12 months from somebody claiming to be the on line casino’s director of IT and to assemble $750,000 in money to pay for an upcoming supply.
The worker additionally acquired textual content messages in regards to the fee and supply as nicely, in response to police, claiming to be an lawyer for the on line casino. The employees member even despatched photos of the bundles of money at one level.
The worker later handed over the money to a person and girl at a enterprise location about eight miles away in North Las Vegas. After having second ideas driving again to the on line casino, the worker advised a superior “that she believed she may have just fallen for a scam,” in response to courtroom paperwork.
Allegedly Part Of Similar Theft
Police haven’t detailed Barria’s actual function within the case and whether or not she was the caller or not. She at present faces a theft cost and was recognized after allegedly being a part of an analogous rip-off in September 2023. Police imagine she might have been half of a bigger group chargeable for a few of these sorts of scams.
In November, Erik Gutierrez Martinez pleaded responsible to at least one rely of theft of greater than $100,000 and acquired a suspended sentence for as much as 96 months for his function in a scheme to steal $1.2 million kind the Circa on line casino in an analogous method. Police imagine he was additionally solely a small half of a bigger operation.
The ruse hasn’t been used solely at Las Vegas casinos. Last July, a person was arrested for the theft of $700,000 from the Four Winds Casino in Michigan. A caller to the cage claimed to be a on line casino government and an worker delivered money to a location 85 miles away. Police have been in a position to recuperate the money on the man’s house, in response to reviews.
