Elderly Couple Arrested For $650,000 Theft At Nevada Casino

A Las Vegas couple was arrested final Friday for allegedly stealing $650,000 in money and chips from a on line casino within the close by metropolis of Primm, Nevada, a small city positioned about 45 miles south of Las Vegas close to the border with California.

Police allege {that a} day earlier, Lydia Salmen, 70, and her husband John Salmen, 63, stole the funds from an unmanned cashier’s cage on the Primm Valley On line casino and Lodge.

The heist methodology? Lydia Salmen allegedly simply jumped over-the-counter to gather the loot.

Safety Footage Leads To Arrest

Video surveillance from the theft in addition to footage from a month earlier was used to determine the couple, based on reviews. Each had been arrested and charged with housebreaking of a enterprise and theft better than $100,000 and are being held within the Clark County Detention Middle. Each refused to speak to police and requested for an legal professional after being taken into custody.

“Roughly $625,569.47 in money, $27,000 in chips, and cash had been recovered from the couple’s residence,” KVVU reported.

Police famous in an arrest report that the couple could have been motivated to steal the funds to “pay for medicine and/or payments that had been starting to rack up.”

Different Latest On line casino Thefts

Makes an attempt to steal from Las Vegas casinos are nothing new. In November 2023, Erik Gutierrez Martinez pleaded responsible to at least one depend of theft of greater than $100,000 after trying to rip-off Circa On line casino out of greater than $1 million. After his arrest greater than $300,000 remained unaccounted for.

In September 2023, a lodge operations supervisor on the Aria was charged with stealing greater than $770,000 from the on line casino from July 2022 to July 2023. Police stated Brandon Rashaad Johnson issued lots of of fraudulent refunds to his personal debit card and used a few of these funds for Louis Vuitton and Versace procuring sprees, using non-public jets, spa visits, buying a house, and extra.