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The most impudent robbery of the casino
On December of December, 2010, at about 4 o’clock in the morning, a man in baggy dark clothes, rubber gloves and a motorcycle helmet with a lowered visor drove up to the most famous casino Las Vegas and the whole world-Belladzhio. He parked his Suzuki motorcycle at the entrance so that the front wheel looked in the direction of the building, looked at the guard booth, where a small woman was sitting alone, and went inside. In the casino, the man quickly went to the table, where there was a game with large bets, scared away the guests and staff with a gun and began to rake the chips in his backpack. After 15 seconds, as swiftly as he appeared, he left the building, sat on a motorcycle and left. No one stopped him. In a backpack hanging on his chest, he took $ 1.5 million in game chips. The next 2 months, the robber came to Belladgio almost daily, lived in the best rooms of the hotel and played in the casino - so no one and not recognized. The incredible story of this spontaneous robbery and operation to capture the criminal tells Rolling Stone .
It turned out to be incredibly simple to rob the casino
Twenty-native Tony Carleo moved to Lac Vegas 16 months earlier to finish his studies at the University of Nevada. He came from a non -poor family: his father was a municipal judge, his stepfather and his uncle also succeeded in life. “They all had money. Good costumes, good cars, good houses, ”recalls Carleo. “But they all worked a lot for this.” I did not have time for this. I was too impatient. " Arriving in Las Vegas with all his savings-about $ 30 thousand-to start a new life, a young man, in the past of DJ, really studied and made new friends for a couple of months, but soon, due to addiction to Oxyconth (opioid, which is called "village heroin"), more and more often began to feel lonely. Loneliness pushed him in a casino.
Perhaps everything would have turned out differently if he won. But Carleo was not lucky. In November 2010, he seized half of his money in a few days, but did not stop and went to play poker and Black jack in Belladgio. There in just a few hours he lost the residues of savings. When losing, Carleo twisted the same thought in his head: here, on the poker table, there are hundreds of thousands of dollars: what should I reach out and just take them?
Two days later, Tony received an invitation to play poker in another casino, Suncoast, which is 20 minutes from Belladgio. He no longer had money for the game, so, according to him, he "used the second best option - robbed it." From the gaming hall, where the table with cards and chips was less than 20 meters from the exit, the ex-DJ was able to endure $ 19 thousand in cash earlier than the guard caught on. It was not a jack-sow, the amount was less than he lost in recent weeks, but the robbery gave Carleo fundamentally important knowledge: it was incredibly simple to rob the casino. It was difficult to force himself to enter this door, he later said, "but when I did this, I realized that everything was possible." Five days later, he put on black and went to the legendary Belladge. The thesis was confirmed: to take money from the institution (this time in the form of chips) and freely hide again was no more difficult than going to the store for bread.
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