A lady has been arrested by Las Vegas police after allegedly being a part of a rip-off that stole $750,000 from Sam’s City On line 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 cellphone name on June 8 of final yr from somebody claiming to be the on line casino’s director of IT and to collect $750,000 in money to pay for an upcoming supply.
The worker additionally acquired textual content messages concerning the cost and supply as properly, in response to police, claiming to be an legal professional for the on line casino. The workers member even despatched footage 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 informed a superior “that she believed she might have simply fallen for a rip-off,” in response to courtroom paperwork.
Allegedly Half Of Related Theft
Police haven’t detailed Barria’s precise function within the case and whether or not she was the caller or not. She presently faces a theft cost and was recognized after allegedly being a part of the same rip-off in September 2023. Police imagine she might have been half of a bigger group chargeable for a few of these forms of scams.
In November, Erik Gutierrez Martinez pleaded responsible to 1 depend 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 type the Circa on line casino in the same 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. Final July, a person was arrested for the theft of $700,000 from the 4 Winds On line 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 had been in a position to get better the money on the man’s dwelling, in response to reviews.
