“At this time, we do not believe James Booth is connected to any of these robberies,” a Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson said in an email on Wednesday.īut the robberies of the Gold Coast, Green Valley Ranch Resort, Silverton and Rampart Casino all remain unsolved with no arrests made. James Booth, 37, was arrested later Monday in connection with the Caesars Palace holdup. According to reports, at the time he was on probation for a 2020 robbery of the casino cage at The Venetian.

16 in connection with the Resorts World robbery.

Zubaid Al Jarmi, 25, was taken into custody on Nov. On Nov 9, $6,000 was taken from the cage at Resorts World, while on Monday, officers responded to a robbery that had occurred just before midnight at Caesars Palace.īut unlike the four other heists, which targeted casinos off the Strip, the Resorts World and Caesars Palace cases netted arrests. “There is a very intentional effort to de-escalate,” said Mehmet Erdem, associate professor of hotel operations and technology at UNLV.Īnd that list doesn’t include a pair of recent robberies on the Strip. As such, the key is to comply with a robber’s demands and never confront them, then surveillance technology to capture the perpetrator later. So how is it that there have been four unsolved robberies of off-Strip casinos across the Las Vegas Valley since November?Įxperts say the casinos have no interest in taking a robbery situation and risk turning it into something more violent or tragic. “And the eye in the sky is watching us all,” he says, a line that holds true in the real Las Vegas outside of the movies. At the top of this food chain: the all-seeing surveillance cameras. It’s one of the more famous scenes from Martin Scorsese’s movie “Casino,” when Robert DeNiro’s character Sam Rothstein lists the myriad layers of security that go into protecting the fictional Tangiers from cheaters. The Rampart casino (Las Vegas Review-Journal file)

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