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Bellagio chip robbery: pic of $25K chips, and note

Pictured below is the email (that pictured two of the stolen Bellagio $25,000 chips and a note) from the robber of the Bellagio chips who was trying to sell some of the chips. The email and other mistakes got him caught. (Associated Press: "In this photo provided by Matthew Brooks, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, gambling chips are seen attached to a note written by the motorcycle bandit who stole $1.5 million in casino chips from the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in December. The note was photographed and emailed to Brooks by a man who called himself the Biker Bandit. Anthony M. Carleo, the bankrupt son of a Las Vegas judge, was arrested this week on allegations that he ran out of the Bellagio hotel-casino with $1.5 million in chips during a gunpoint heist Dec. 14.")

Here is a link to the article with the pictures and explaining much:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gBQo8LnZc7bLoxIYbZHTkroQimVw?docId=d2bfc17e6d3f45468ca1da63ddc745c3&index=7

Here are interesting tid bits from the article:
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The scenes that led to the Bellagio bandit's downfall look less like "Ocean's Eleven" and more like "America's Dumbest Criminals." Bragging about a big gambling score with high school buddies over rounds of shots in Colorado. E-mailing pictures to a total stranger — dated and signed "Biker Bandit" with two $25,000 Bellagio chips.

Losing $105,000 gambling at the scene of the crime in Las Vegas, but cashing out nearly $209,000 and apparently hoping the casino wouldn't notice. ... ......

Carleo e-mailed several pictures to Brooks depicting two $25,000 Bellagio chips — affectionately known as "cranberries" to gamblers because of their color.

"Cranberries are good for the liver!" reads the postscript on the note in the picture. ... .... ...

Robert


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