Robbery at New York, New York marks second high-profile Las Vegas casino heist in three months

Los Angeles Times ^ | Jan. 10, 2018 | David Montero

[ConservativeStatement]

A cash cage at the New York, New York Hotel and Casino was robbed early Wednesday, with the armed suspect ultimately escaping in a taxi, authorities reported.

The heist took place about 1 a.m., with the robber revealing a handgun in his waistband and demanding the money, according to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Laura Metzler. The man left with an undisclosed amount of cash

New York, New York, which is owned by MGM Resorts International, is the second large casino on the Las Vegas Strip to be robbed within the last three months.

[Seruzawa]

I guess that turnabout is fair play.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Danny Ocean unavailable for comments.

[CondorFlight]

I’ll bet they finish that investigation real quick, and use video to do it...

unlike another certain investigation...

[UCANSEE2]

Seems to me that robbing a casino would be almost guaranteed to fail.

You can’t even get into the casino wearing a mask of any kind, and there are hundreds of video cameras.

[Fhios]

Somebody has a hole waiting for them in the desert.

[Dilbert San Diego]

And isn’t the cashier cage deep in the interior of the casino? Not exactly easy to slip out the door after the heist.

[CondorFlight]

“You can’t even get into the casino wearing a mask of any kind, and there are hundreds of video cameras.”

Nonsense. You can bring a whole arsenal of weapons, plus ammo, into a casino, and you won’t even be captured on camera . . .

[Vision Thing]

Daniel would laugh at the small-time hood, dismissing him as a piker.

[Cementjungle]

Nonsense. You can bring a whole arsenal of weapons, plus ammo, into a casino, and you won’t even be captured on camera . . .

You can bring guns, booze, hookers or whatever into your hotel room no questions asked, but the security atmosphere changes quite a bit once you step into the casino area.

[CapnJack]

They'll get him in time ... and when they do ...

[Vision Thing]

The nyak nyak cashier cage is a 30-second walk from an escalator leading away from the casino floor, and a 1 minute walk to the taxi-cab line.

However, this happened at 1 am, when the floor was probably relatively empty, so it should've been easy to spot this perp.

[octex]

this happened at 1 am, when the floor was probably relatively empty,
********************************
I went to Vegas 3-4 times a year for about 15 years. I’ve never seen the casino floors ‘relatively empty’ at 1am. Things are rockin’ that time of night.

I’d hit the bed ~6am, after breakfast and be back on the casino floor ~1pm after shave and shower. ...People don’t go to Vegas to sleep.

[UCANSEE2]

And isn’t the cashier cage deep in the interior of the casino? Not exactly easy to slip out the door after the heist.

PLUS... he escaped in a CAB.