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Failure to deliver the money could cause city officials to order a temporary shutdown of operations, potentially costing the operator millions of dollars, claimed the impostor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The case supervisor delivered the money in four installments totaling $1.17 million to two men at four different locations. All the time she believed she was on the phone to the owner and texting with her manager, police said.<\/p>\n
Investigators traced a car used in the heist to Gutierrez Martinez\u2019s aunt\u2019s house, leading to his arrest.<\/strong><\/p>\nNo one else has been arrested in connection with the scheme, which appeared to have several participants, and $314K from the Circa haul remains unrecovered.<\/p>\n
Eureka Moment<\/strong><\/h2>\nOn March 2 at around 1:30 a.m., an individual calling himself \u201cMichael Gunther\u201d telephoned the Eureka casino cage from a Mexican phone number about a missing check. \u201cGunther\u201d explained he was a representative of the company that supplied the casino\u2019s hand sanitizer. He claimed the cage supervisor would find the check payable to his company in the safe.<\/p>\n
When no such check was found, the caller told the supervisor that $250K needed to be delivered immediately to an address in Las Vegas. When the supervisor arrived at the location, she was surprised to discover it was a Circle K convenience store.<\/p>\n
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\u201cGunther\u201d told her to deposit $15K into a Bitcoin Depot kiosk. He then directed her to a 7-Eleven to meet somebody called \u201cAnthony,\u201d who would receive the remaining $235K. Soon after handing over the cash, the supervisor received a call from the casino that something was wrong and she was able to grab the money back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Investigators now believe that \u201cAnthony\u201d was Gutierrez Martinez.<\/p>\n
The $15K transferred into Bitcoin was sent to 17 different accounts, including to some based in Gibraltar, an offshore tax haven in the Mediterranean, according to court filings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man accused of stealing more than $1 million from Circa Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas by pretending to be one of its owners pleaded guilty Monday to one count of theft of more than $100K. Erik Gutierrez Martinez, 24, was arrested on June 18, a day after the robbery. When investigators searched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":290359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,21,81886,60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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