$1.6 MILLION CHIP HEIST UNDETECTED FOR 22 HOURS
October 31, 2012 - 10:28 am
It took Akingide Cole less than 30 minutes Oct. 10 to walk in and out of The Venetian with more than $1.6 million in stolen gambling chips, according to a Las Vegas police report released Tuesday.
More than 22 hours later, the hotel-casino's staff realized it had a problem: The high-value chips were gone and unaccounted for.