The Bellagio robbery on Tuesday may not cost the Las Vegas resort much as the $1.5 million in chip stolen are probably not cashable, experts say.
The thief strolled into the Vegas resort, renowned for its fountains show, stuck up the craps table with a gun and fled the hotel by motorcycle early Tuesday morning.
Gaming security expert Jeff Voyles told Fox-5 Las Vegas that there was “no way” that the robber could possibly cash in so many chips with such advanced security features.
The chips “most likely have serial numbers on them or they have an embedded chip called RFID (radio frequency identification),” Voyles told the TV station. “They’re able to track them, so they know exactly what chips were stolen off that game.”
According to the AP, police are on standby and have “safeguards in place” in the area and at the Bellagio in case the robber or the chips show up.
A spokesman for MGM Resorts, the owner of Bellagio, also told the AP that the chips themselves don’t have any value and that “at some point they have to be redeemed.”
According to a previous report by The Epoch Times citing AP, the Bellagio thief is suspected of robbing another Vegas casino—the Las Vegas Suncoast Hotel & Casino—about a week earlier on Dec. 9.
In the Dec. 9 heist, the robber—which resembles the Bellagio culprit in that they both wore a jumpsuit and a motorcycle helmet—made off with $20,000.
The thief strolled into the Vegas resort, renowned for its fountains show, stuck up the craps table with a gun and fled the hotel by motorcycle early Tuesday morning.
Gaming security expert Jeff Voyles told Fox-5 Las Vegas that there was “no way” that the robber could possibly cash in so many chips with such advanced security features.
The chips “most likely have serial numbers on them or they have an embedded chip called RFID (radio frequency identification),” Voyles told the TV station. “They’re able to track them, so they know exactly what chips were stolen off that game.”
According to the AP, police are on standby and have “safeguards in place” in the area and at the Bellagio in case the robber or the chips show up.
A spokesman for MGM Resorts, the owner of Bellagio, also told the AP that the chips themselves don’t have any value and that “at some point they have to be redeemed.”
According to a previous report by The Epoch Times citing AP, the Bellagio thief is suspected of robbing another Vegas casino—the Las Vegas Suncoast Hotel & Casino—about a week earlier on Dec. 9.
In the Dec. 9 heist, the robber—which resembles the Bellagio culprit in that they both wore a jumpsuit and a motorcycle helmet—made off with $20,000.
