Posted on 11/10/2003 7:45:53 PM PST by mhking
FLORENCE, Colo. -- A former guard at a Cripple Creek casino has turned himself in to authorities after suspicion focused on him for a casino cash robbery because he purchased a $6,000 used Harley-Davidson motorcycle with a stack of $20 bills.
Police say Jason Cody Jones, 27, appeared in a Teller County courtroom Friday on suspicion of burglary and theft for a looting at the J.P. McGill's casino on May 2.
He was released on $100,000 bond and his next court appearance is Nov. 17.
An arrest affidavit said Jones was a night security guard who allegedly sacked the casino and then used the small bills to buy the motorcycle, a pickup truck and even police badges for the Victor Police Department where he went to work after he quit the casino position.
Investigators said Jones earned $6,400 between February and July this year, but spent $35,000.
"He had been spending large amounts of cash," said Cripple Creek Police Chief Gary Hamilton.
The cash that was taken from McGill's included $68,000 in $20 bills; $16,000 in $100 bills; $15,005 in $5 bills, and $10,600 in $50 bills, authorities said.
When he bought the pickup truck using mostly $20 bills, Jones told the dealership he was from Cripple Creek but had not won a jackpot in the gambling town.
"No, I've just been putting a little money away saving for this because I have bad credit," he said, according to the affidavit.
But authorities also said Jones then told investigators the money was from payoffs from Honduran drug dealers he got while working as a sheriff's deputy in Lake County.
Why a Hugger, since it was (the Hugger is no more) more expensive than the standard XLH (which is also no more). For what it's worth, my scoot started life as a lowly 883 Hugger.
Interesting theory. So currency that is my property also invites the FedGov to track me, my purchases, etc. without limit and without probable cause? And the constitutional justification for this is found... where?
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