On June 17, Circa was bilked out of more than $1 million after a so-called imposter scam tricked a casino worker into believing she was delivering bags of cash to two men at four different locations on behalf of one of the hotel’s owners, police said.Īccording to documents, a casino cage supervisor at the Eureka got a call at about 1:30 p.m. Michael Lawton, a spokesperson for the Nevada Gaming Control Board, said in an email that the board had no comment on the incidents.
It also wasn’t clear if anybody else has been arrested in the three scams. It wasn’t clear if anybody had been charged in the Laughlin case, however. Both scams involved people using the same names, and both involved calls originating from Mexican phone numbers, the report said.
(Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal) 23-year-old Las Vegas man accused in a so-called imposter scam that swindled Circa out of over $1 million is also accused of being involved in similar con jobs targeting casinos in Mesquite and Laughlin.Įrik Gutierrez Martinez is charged with theft of over $100,000 in connection with an attempt to bilk the Eureka Casino Resort in Mesquite out of $250,000, according to court documents.Ī similar fraud also played out at the Golden Nugget in Laughlin, according to a Nevada Gaming Control Board arrest report. The Golden Nugget hotel-casino in Laughlin on Saturday, Aug.
