More than $1.5 million in chips were taken from the Las Vegas resort by a man sporting a jumpsuit and a motorcycle helmet, the AP reported.
The robber held up the craps table at the hotel, famous for its fountains, and ran from the resort, escaping on a motorcycle. Las Vegas police released a 12-second surveillance video of the culprit racing through the Bellagio with a gun, with the casino chips presumably in his pockets.
The unknown perpetrator may have been responsible for a separate robbery on Thursday, Dec. 9 at the Las Vegas Suncoast Hotel & Casino, police told AP.
About $20,000 was taken in the previous incident. That suspect wore similar dress, police told the news agency.
Despite the thief’s escape, experts doubted that he could cash in his Bellagio chips for money.
"I can't think of any way you could. It's not like they're currency that you can use anywhere,” David Schwartz, director of gaming research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “If you steal so many chips, in such a big, dramatic way, there's going to be a lot of scrutiny at the casino, and that makes it very difficult to cash in."
