![]() ![]() In the most recent case, the bandit parked his black sport motorcycle outside a Bellagio valet area about 3:50 a.m. Its perpetrator was probably also responsible for another robbery, in which $20,000 was pilfered from the Suncoast Casino cage during a poker tournament Dec. The Bellagio theft was the 10th this year, Las Vegas police said. Simpson in the 2007 armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers, Las Vegas jurors watched tape of him and his crew wandering the Palace Station hotel. Cameras often capture a robber’s every step, from porte-cochere to craps table. Gambling halls are packed with potential witnesses. Low-tech casino schemes are rare as well. “It was fun to watch, but nothing in that movie could happen,” Braunstein said. So says security expert Ken Braunstein, who also served as a consultant for the George Clooney movie. Still, such an elaborate high-tech heist as the one portrayed in “Ocean’s Eleven” is unlikely. ![]() “They have 2,000 cameras on the floor, but cameras don’t have minds, do they?” he said. Now, said Willy Allison, a Las Vegas security consultant, casino security teams are often too understaffed to properly wander the casino and monitor “eye in the sky” cameras, particularly since the recession forced layoffs. One robber turned herself in after more than dozen years in hiding, but authorities failed to hunt down her partner and his windfall. In 1993, a pair of armed robbers made off with one of the largest bounties - $2.95 million - from an armored car outside the down-market Circus Circus hotel. ![]()
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