Bellagio Heist: Motorcycle Bandit Displays Gun, Flees Vegas Casino with Up To $2M in Chips, Say Cops
LAS VEGAS (CBS/KLAS/AP) Las Vegas police are looking for an armed bandit who escaped on a motorcycle with perhaps $2 million worth of gambling chips from the posh Bellagio hotel-casino.
Police Lt. Clinton Nichols says the thief wore a full-face motorcycle helmet as he displayed a gun in a casino pit area, then demanded chips and sped away on Flamingo Road.
Detectives are reviewing video and camera images of the robbery that occurred just before 4 a.m. Tuesday at the resort on the Strip.
No shots were fired and no one was injured.
Anyone with information regarding this robbery is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555.