In December, a man wearing all black and a motorcycle helmet robbed the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, of nearly $1.5 million dollars worth of chips.  While he was careful to conceal his identity in real life, Anthony Michael Carleo wasn’t so careful about concealing who he was online.  Anthony Carleo, the biker bandit who robbed the Bellagio, was arrested in a sting operation at the Bellagio, where he had been trying to sell his stolen chips.  As it turns out, gamblers are good at ignoring robberies that don’t involve them directly.

Police were able to connect the 29-year-old Carleo, a bankrupt former real estate agent and the son of Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge George Assad, to a man selling “cranberries,” or $25,000 cash chips from the Bellagio, to a man using online handles like “oceanspray25” and “cranberrykid25” in various online gambling forums who talked about needing to sell a lot of cranberries fast (Bellagio owner MGM Resorts International discontinued $25,000 chips in December after the robbery).  This got the attention of Vegas police, who arranged a sting operation and a meeting with Carleo.

Turns out, he’s been back to the Bellagio several times to move the chips, and had even lost $107,000 in the Bellagio’s various game rooms.  He’d spent so much at the hotel that they have given him several days’ worth of free room and board.

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