The Vegas Motorbike Thief That Stole $1.5 Million At Gun Point | Cheating Vegas S1 EP3 | Wonder

[Music] Vegas is a world built on fantasy but there's a dark reality just beneath the surface where good and bad guys battle everyday cat and mouse just what we're doing all the time usually the good guys win but there are cheaters who are so accomplished at what they do they get away with millions these are their exclusive stories told by the guys who took Vegas for a ride and landed themselves into the cheater Hall of Fame [Applause] on gaming tables in Las Vegas casinos there are colored chips of all denominations only a handful of companies make them and manufacturing processes are kept top secret so when two devious cheese successfully counterfeited chips it catapulted them right into the cheater Hall of Fame chips are cash and casinos and would be similar to dollar bills or $20 bills Henderson Nevada just 13 miles from Las Vegas agents from the Gaming Control Board bust a counterfeiting ring operating out of a garage the bust itself was a first of its kind not just in Las Vegas but Gaming Control agents say the first of its kind in the country they had never really seen an operation like this before in a makeshift workshop agents find chips that are in the process of being converted from low denominations to high denominations these are all for Queen $100 inserts that is what sticks in the middle of a $1 chip with a little paint and you've got $100 chip now you have one dollar investment and a 99 dollar profit I mean it literally took some paint some glitter and a blow dryer and a good idea behind the scam is an unlikely pair two former construction workers the mastermind is 40-year old Eric Morikawa in an exclusive interview Morikawa reveals how he created chips that looked so real they fooled the experts it wasn't that easy but once it came to us and we figured out a way it came fast the story begins in the late 1990s Vegas construction is booming new casinos are going up all over town and older casinos renovate extensively to stay competitive in 2000 small-time contractor Eric Morikawa of Southern California moves to Las Vegas to find work soon Morikawa has more work than he can handle he hires additional help including 20-year old Jeremy Lewis Jeremy I met at a bar or shooting pool and he was out of work and I did my job but Morikawa snoo employee has a checkered past Jeremy Lewis was the known bad guy he had some drug and forgery warrants outstanding in California and he had also had multiple arrests here in the Las Vegas area still Jeremy's a good worker for a few years business is good then in 2004 the economy crashes the construction industry took a dive and and work wasn't really there anymore we were all in the same situation the money started to deplete and we needed to take care of our families Morikawa and his crew start doing jobs farther and farther away but on one of their return trips Morikawa spots something on the side of the road that gets him thinking I slide ship on the Billboard and asked them how hard would it be to make the chip and we all agreed it wouldn't be that difficult in that moment Morikawa and his crew decide to do what no one else has successfully done counterfeit the currency of Vegas casino chips we went up to Vegas and we would get the chip from the table we took it back to my garage and we broke it down we broke it in half try to see what was contained inside the chip casino chips are made out of clay sand and other earth and metals that are heated to extreme temperatures and pressed into shape Morikawa and the crew start trying to replicate them we were trying to make our own chips from scratch from different clays injecting metals and trying to get it that away it was hard in order to pass the fake chips must have the same weight feel and the hollow sound that real chips make when they're dropped the team do their own sound tests this is the real chip and this is the imposter the chips that we made from scratch would be like a heavy thud and so we knew that was gonna go by the team still hasn't created a chip that will work discouraged several crew members bail now it's just Morikawa and luis but they're not ready to give up together they spend hours studying the chips from the Green Valley Ranch casino each denomination has its own colors the hundred dollar chip is black and gray and the one dollar chip is gray and teal Morikawa suddenly realizes it would be easier to modify a chip than to create one from scratch it's a huge breakthrough so I grabbed a Sharpie pen and I just was like well we just need to paint black it looks like they can take $1 chips and convert them into $100 chips with the little effort first they must remove the $1 inlay from the center we tried heating it up to pull it off heating it up would bend the chip so we would put it in a boiling water and it would penetrate the inlay the 212 degree water leaves that ship unharmed but softens the inlay allowing them to easily pull it off next step duplicating the black and gray shades of the $100 chip we would get our paints from an art supply store we would sit there and just mix the colors you know blend them in and then put it on the real chip and then wait for it to dry and and we both look at it under light outside you know different types of light and then make sure the color matched to it to a tee it was very very very close then it's on to the painting they start with a gray color of the accent stripes known as pips using an airbrush they cover the entire chip it had to be a light spray which an airbrush spray is really light once the paint dries they block out the Pips with painters tape then airbrush everything else black when the tape is removed the colors on the counterfeit ship mirror the authentic one Eric Morikawa and Jeremy Lewis really did a good job at matching the colors and that's not easy to do because the the colors are always very unique you can't do it perfectly they didn't do it perfectly but they got them very close once the colors in place the next step is creating the phony $100 graphic inlay they scan a real one into a computer then printed on clear plastic to give it a glossy look then the plastic is glued onto a white backing made of bumper sticker paper you'd run the inlays would do kind of like a pasta roller and the new end they would fit perfectly inside the chip the chip is ready except for one crucial detail if you were to run this chip underneath the backlight you'll see a glowing top hat and a cane and that's one of their security features I went out and got the same color ink in a pen form and we would color the top hat and cane in there and we had a backlight setup so we check you know position they're random so we just put it on there and Mazda showed something underneath the backlight good pass after a month of work they finally have three $100 counterfeit chips Morikawa and Lewis had 10 minutes off the Vegas strip to the Green Valley Ranch casino in Henderson Nevada to see if they can fool the casino I don't lie very well so I can't walk into casino and keep a straight face and go to the the cashier cage and cash the chips I I feel guilty Jeremy Lewis takes the lead I'm sitting the program while he's in the trying to cash these chips in casino I'm hoping now everything's going okay nothing's gonna happen moments later Lewis reappears ran to the truck and hopped in and said you know drive we drove I thought security was chasing them and looking over our shoulders but no one's behind them and when Morikawa looks over Luis has three $100 bills in his hand the counterfeit shifts work we were pretty excited we ran back to the house and made some more they could come down into the garage and within five minutes you could have a brand new chip it was just that stunningly simple Morikawa and Lewis are able to counterfeit 20 chips a day they plan to work their scam all over town to match the various chips they stock up on supplies there's different colors on the chips a lot of it had like glitter so we take the glitter pens and dab the glitter in there and give it that metallic look they passed fraudulent chips at eight different casino properties including Caesars Palace and Mandalay Bay these guys were all over town they are well on their way to the cheater Hall of Fame but they realized that sooner or later cashing in chips without ever playing a single casino game is bound to arouse suspicion to avoid getting caught they need to change their game we had to find a way where it was kind of foolproof where they wouldn't be able to immediately catch on to make the scam look legitimate they start playing at the gaming tables buying real chips from dealers we'd made $2,000 on the table they give us the chips and the camera overhead sees that so we use that to our advantage and then we would exchange them either in the bathroom or parking lot and and get the the counterfeit ones and we'd have the real ones if you went up to a cage and cash them out and they caught it you could always refer back to hey that table gave them later on taking back the real ones they wouldn't question it because they were real Morikawa and Lewis begins spending more and more time at the casinos at the time we graduated from the hundred dollar chips to the 500 even the thousand dollar chips and the money was coming in the lifestyle was changing we were doing a lot of eating out at nice restaurants and and being on the strip Morikawa keeps the source of his newfound wealth a secret from everyone including his wife at first she asked but then she was just like I don't want to know and she was getting new purses clothes at one point counted 100 pairs of shoes in boxes in a closet so yeah she was benefitting from it too for three months Eric and his wife enjoy their extravagant new lifestyle but partner Jeremy Lewis heads down a much different path I found him at like a $800 night suite at the Riviera the place was bigger than my whole house and he was there with a bunch of girls he hadn't had any sleep he was wired Lewis's lifestyle soon becomes a liability one day he was talking to one of the girls on the phone and and I could overhear him cuz it was it was loud so I told him hey hand me the phone I want I want to talk to her so he gave me the phone and she said I know everything that you guys do and I look down I was like why would you tell her I mean my wife doesn't even know why would you tell a stranger all this you know and you know now she wants money now we have to pay her for a few days they pay her hush money but then she started want more and then she was telling us that hey my my man's in jail we need to get him out she threatens to reveal their scam to police in a bid to get her boyfriend's sentence reduced so they pay her off again a few days later it seems like everything has blown over maura cows wife leaves the country to visit her mother as soon as she's gone Morikawa and lewis start planning a trip to Atlantic City to hit their casinos they can knock out a door there's a guy at the door and says I hey my son threw a ball and and in your backyard can you go get it as I was turning around to get the ball out of the backyard he grabs me those me on the ground two other agents jump out of the bushes they're fully armed and they're rushing into the house over me they are enforcement agents from the Nevada Gaming Control Board Louis's blackmailer has apparently turned them in after all enough information was developed to obtain a search warrant and when the home was searched every piece of evidence we were looking for was there the whole setup was found the chips are of such quality that they that some of those that have been passed and in the recent past may not have been detected yet stunned Las Vegas authorities must now deal with the fact that two construction workers have compromised the security of casino chips Morikawa and Luis are in jail three days later the pair are brought before a judge they were given five million dollars bail not for murdering someone not for raping someone for counterfeiting casino chips our state takes this stuff really seriously since neither can make bail Morikawa and Luis are taken back to the maximum security jail the hefty bail makes Morikawa a celebrity among the inmates when I came in there a bunch of the people were like oh wow your bail is 5 million they called another guy over and was like hey you know he has a higher bail than you and he was a Russian guy and not just any guy the man has ties to a Russian gang met him and sat down and talked with him and told him my story and he was interested he's all about business and he was like you know what we do need to talk once you get out if you get out a few days later Mora cowls attorney gets him a new bail hearing and they're lowered my bail from 5 million to I think was like twelve thousand so I could bail out after ripping off the casinos for tens of thousands of dollars Morikawa ends up serving just ten days Jeremy Lewis his partner in crime is not so lucky his outstanding drug and forgery arrest warrants keep him behind bars Morikawa is free but deeply in debt I made the house payment I paid majority of the bills by doing what I was doing and now I have a case and I need to pay my attorneys desperate he calls the Russian who's also just been released from jail the Russian once Morikawa to teach him how to make counterfeit chips I was very concerned because I knew that if I got caught again I would not get out once again faced with overwhelming debts Morikawa looks to counterfeiting as a way out but this time he won't get his hands dirty for 25 percent of the profits he agrees to train the Russians I would take roads out of the way to meet with them I would constantly watch for people in my mirrors and and see if anyone was following it once the Russians are trained they begin passing the phony chips at casinos in Las Vegas an alert casino employee spots a few of them they looked a little different in the rack than the other chips and turn out to be counterfeit then we had to do some backtracking and try to find these people the investigation leads to the only two people who've ever made chips that can pass for the real thing Jeremy Lewis and Eric Morikawa with Jeremy Lewis still in prison that leaves Morikawa and agents are closing in one day I was training with the Russian guys and there's a knock at the door it's the police we had all the chips and equipment laying around I'm looking at the ceiling and trying to figure out a way to get out and there's no way so soon as they came in I dropped to my knees and put my hands behind my head and I knew I was arrested I'm sitting in jail and I didn't think I was going to get out until we went to court Eric Morikawa hires a shrewd Vegas defense attorney it's a move that pays off in spades in 2006 Morikawa makes a deal and pleads guilty to six felony counts he walks with five years probation and community service the most time spent in jail was a week and a half when I first got arrested the second arrest I was only in that couple days before I bailed out still Morikawa must make restitution for all the fraudulent chips he passed restitution is at 36 thousand is what they could only find and the chips I think we did over a million and they claim that they're priced on circulation they can't find them I would not cheat Vegas skin it's easy money and it's fast but it's not worth it it's not worth giving up your livelihood and your family and embarrassing your family no more a cow is counterfeit scam is a wake-up call for Vegas today many casinos protect their chips using a high-tech device called RFID short for radio frequency identification that has a small electronic chip embedded in the chip somewhere and they can keep track of what the chip is and and how many of them are on the table it's an identifier they use RFID scanners at both the gaming tables and the cage making it impossible for a low denomination ship to be mistaken for a high one no matter what the face of the chip reads while new technology keeps chips safe from manipulation easy money is always a target for the world-class Vegas cheater one in particular stands out both for the simplicity and sheer audacity of his crime Anthony Carly oh one of the things about Anthony Carly Oh was that he seemed to have this need to be a larger-than-life figure he had this sense of invincibility about him he's not somebody that lived the life of a criminal I think he just kind of had this downward spiral this the sudden snapping in an exclusive phone interview Carly Oh tells us in his own words how he became one of vegas a--'s most notorious criminals with those losses mounting Carly oh is desperate he concocts a bold plan to capture a cash jackpot on his motorcycle Carly Oh cuts through Vegas traffic with ease he pulls into the Suncoast casino the Suncoast is the west las vegas hotel casino that's usually frequented by the local neighborhood people leaving the engine running Carlyle walks directly to the cage dressed entirely in black with a motorbike helmet he pulls a pistol from his waistband told the cashier reach into the drawer grab stacks of cash put it into a bag no security guards tried to stop him it's better to let people have the money that's really the policy is to let that happen because weapons are a liability you could have somebody's wrongfully shoot somebody so in the end we'll just call the police let them handle it that's their job that's what they do in just minutes it's over Carly Oh heads into the neon night with almost $20,000 Carly Oh hit so hard and fast Vegas is caught off guard and since his bike helmet and visor make him unidentifiable the police are left with no clues just five days later once again Carlisle gets on his bike and rolls down the heart of the Vegas Strip this time he pulls into the opulent Bellagio Hotel and Casino Carly Oh jogs into the casino but the cage is too far away to reach quickly so he heads to the high-end gaming tables [Music] my bag went straight for the high dollar casino chips which were the cranberry colored ones valued at $25,000 he also grabbed several white ones which were valued at $5,000 [Music] [Music] this time car leo takes off with more than a million dollars worth of chips although the chips are embedded with RFID identification devices they can only be tracked inside the casino outside the tracking devices stopped working [Music] we going on 225 on our car Leo disappears into the night in response to the robberies casinos across town add undercover personnel to patrol gaming floors cages go on high alert eight days after the second robbery authorities get their first break ago when a dealer from the Bellagio comes forward anonymously he tells them about a suspicious player who'd been in the day before the heist he started talking to him about the possibility of robbing the Bellagio he said I'd like to get it my hands on some of these cranberries cranberries of course are worth 25,000 the dealer patiently listens and has the guy believing that he can trust him eventually he gets the guy's name it's Anthony Carl ayo when investigators look into Carl aoes background they find an unlikely stick-up guy Carl ayo is the son of a Las Vegas judge but he grows up in Pueblo Colorado with his mother after moving to Las Vegas in 2009 he enrolls at UNLV to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a physician he has no criminal record but in his first semester at college Carl ayo gravitates to the casinos [Music] [Music] when detectives check his bank records they discover no reportable income other than a grant check from UNLV for $4,000 from an informant they also learned that after a car wreck earlier that year Carlile had been prescribed the narcotic painkiller oxycodone Anthony carly-o certainly fits a profile of someone desperate enough to steal but police don't have enough evidence to arrest him but if it is him it means there's a gambler with the drug habit and a gun looking to break even he has an ace in the hole the $25,000 chips but cashing them in would be risky [Music] with so many stolen high-end ships on the street the Bellagio takes action and discontinues the $25,000 chips the Blasio has the authority to withdraw and refuse to accept those denomination chips the Gaming Control Board then will be conducting an investigation to determine whether or not a person who is presenting those chips actually won them the day after the $25,000 chip recall Carlisle returns to the Bellagio this time without his gun to play poker and blackjack the dealer who'd reported him earlier is out of town for the holidays so when Carlo uses the lower denominations stolen ships he goes undetected on New Year's Eve car leo again uses the lower denomination shifts he quickly loses $70,000 by the middle of January he's down more than a hundred thousand stolen dollars at this point Carlisle has bet so much money he is considered a high-roller a few days later he returns to the Bellagio and gets comped a room and meals when he cashes out more money than he wins Bellagio security staff suspects he's using the stolen ships they notify metro police in Nevada Gaming now they have carly-o in their sights but they still have to connect him directly to the robberies they watch and wait Carlisle's losing streak continues sooner or later he might make a play using one of the $25,000 Cranberries that everyone is watching for to avoid being caught car Leo attempts to fence the hot ships online he posts several messages in poker playing chat rooms that was one of the crazy things he was going you know these online poker sized trying to figure out how to get rid of him though audacious car Leo's behavior lacks the sophistication of a professional felon he even posted a photo of a couple of the cranberry chips and he called himself the biker bandit he was pretty much saying it's me come and get me well the biker banner wasn't the sharpest tool in the box that's for sure police get an anonymous tip that Anthony Carl ayo is calling himself the biker bandit and he's trying to sell his $25,000 cranberry chips for $10,000 cash police finally have what they need to set him up an undercover detective contacts Carl ayo posing as a buyer for the stolen ship just a few days later the trap is set Carl AO brought in several chips the undercover cop promised him $100,000 and then when the car Larry left the chips that was it for mr. Carl AO the next day Vegas Metro Police announced Carl aoe's arrest to the news media we want to send a clear message to those who think that they can come to Las Vegas commit a robbery using a weapon and get away with it is sadly mistaken Anthony Carl AO pleads guilty to the casino robberies and is sentenced to serve between 8 and 27 years in prison from Lovelock prison in Nevada 30 year-old Anthony Carl AO reflects on his crimes [Music] [Music] most hall-of-fame cheaters aren't as brazen as Anthony Carly Oh instead they make their mark by taking advantage of easy targets he's a predator he's a shark swimming among the anchovies out there he's looking for the lazy person he's trying to find that weak link that we have and then he's going to go in and take advantage of it and there's one sheet who makes it into the Hall of Fame for not knowing when to quit the Hard Rock Casino a pit boss notices a player placing large bets at a poker table he contacts surveillance that call came up as we have a high limit player in the name was Clifton Burnham when we went into the system to look up the history of Clifton Burnham there was a noticeable pattern of wins and losses he always won on a certain day of the week and all the rest of the time it was obvious losses his lucky day is Sunday and June 15th 2000 happens to be a Sunday they look back over the past few hours of play Burnham has been on a winning streak at PI Gow pi GAO is an Asian poker game played against the dealer but like all casino games dealers play for the cameras as the surveillance team watches Burnham they see a problem but it's with their own dealer if I'm watching a game the dealers have certain procedures that they have to do at certain times when they break that procedure that's a red flag then we have to look and see why are they breaking procedures and if they're breaking the procedures with a certain person could that person be in collusion with the dealer the dealer has worked at the casino for five years we really didn't have a lot of problems out of him but at one point we noticed that he was going to pour card spray because there are so many ties in PI Gow dealer protocol is to spread the cards for the camera here Burnham has lost the hand but the dealer is doing what's called a quick spread picking up the cards immediately making it look like a tie so the player loses no money so why is this dealer intentionally dumping the game for Burnham's benefit one hour later they have a possible answer when security has slipped an anonymous letter and what this anonymous letter stated was you have a customer and a dealer who are in collusion on your poker pygar game and the name this customer is using is Clifton Burnham but his real name is James shady and at that point I let out a few expletives ran back upstairs and by then he was gone James Shahade e's reputation is well known in Las Vegas Jimmy Shaheed he was a criminal he's a career Kruk he's a dirtbag I went back for the schedule for the previous month to see if there was a correlation between his wins and the dealer that was on the game and sure enough there is a connection Shahidi has been winning for four straight Sundays as Clifton Burnham he always want with this particular dealer only the dealer a longtime employee of the Hard Rock had racked up steep gambling debts the dealer in question owed money to a guy from the sports he had borrowed money from the guy and couldn't pay back that individual question owed money to change to Haiti so how better to pay it back than to give him a cheating dealer what a friend right hey I got a friend guy owes me money he's dealing over at this joint you go in he dumps the game to you we're all happy since the dealer never collects Sansha Haiti's losing bets Shahade e is able to play for hours making money on every hand he does win basically he can never lose on this game so every hand there he's gonna lose he's gonna give him the signal he's gonna do the quick spread throw the cards in the discard and say it was a push so every time he wins even when he doesn't win he still wins cuz he doesn't lose so they just take the money every time once the dealer repays his dead he plans to stop cheating but Shahade e isn't willing to let the scam go when you find something that good why would you give it off this guy he's not gonna let you just walk away you just committed a felony you just did something that's gonna ruin your life and I own you for it the dealer was very scared Shahade he was representing himself as a member of organized crime he's telling the guy unless you do what I want bad things are gonna happen to you and the dealer believed it and that's where June 15th 2000 comes into play desperate and looking for a way out the dealer writes the anonymous letter to security before starting his shift two hours later security finds the letter at the same time surveillance sees a break-in procedure faced with evidence of a cheat the hard rock calls the Nevada Gaming Control Board they came out looked at the videotape and at that point we waited for the following week for mr. shady to come in and indeed he did on the actual security tape the dealer begins his shift moments later James Shahade II sits down and the cheat plays out on camera after Shahade he loses the hand the dealer picks up the cards and does another quick spread as if Shahade ease hand was actually pushed that's all authorities need to see at that point the gaming ages came down arrested the dealer and arrested Shanee from the casino field after he's dragged away in handcuffs the dealer confesses he's been part of the scam for more than a year the dealer got himself into D he owed the guy money next thing he knows he's dumping this game for 70 80 thousand dollars for testifying against Shahade II the dealer is let go Shaheed he is convicted and is sentenced to 12 to 48 months a year later his luck runs out on a Friday night he dies in prison at the age of 60 Shaheed a shameless strong-arming of the hardrock dealer earns him a place in the cheater Hall of Fame but there's one sheet shrewder smarter and more successful than any who have come before or since he hit Vegas Denis Nick rash during his career he steals a whopping 16 million dollars Denis Nick rash was a genius and Heather that was one of his strengths he really knew what was needed to cheat a machine to wrong different types of criminal acts for him to stop stealing boredom it's a challenge to him he has to do it to show the public that he can do it to show the game into job or to show the industry Nicke rashes road to infamy begins in Chicago Dennis Nick rash started off as a locksmith and he found that he was very proficient at breaking in the locks and he ended up having some friends who were organized crime and tied to the Genovese crime family but he started working with them breaking into cars and jewelry stores and businesses until he eventually got caught Dennis Nick rash serves a year in prison after his release in the 1970s he sets his sights on Vegas using a tool called the slider he breaks into slot machines he could slide the device through the door crack and activate the mechanism with the sliding vise and pay out as casinos lose money manufacturers redesign the machines so they are more difficult to cheat but Nick rash is undaunted by the changes he buys a machine and does the impossible manipulates the slot machine itself to create a winning jackpot on command although his precise techniques remain a mystery the first battle is learning how to open up a slot machine in a casino undetected he's a locksmith so you can open it without setting off the alarm the alarm is a warning alert programmed to go off five seconds after the door is opened so Nick rash must act quickly he manually adjusts each of the reels to a jackpot setting then he triggers the jackpot bells closes the door and all anyone hears is the cheerful dinging of another slots winner Nik rash has the system beat from 76 to 83 his cunning that's him ten million dollars the interesting part of this is that when we found out about it that this is going on we inspected known machines machines that we knew he had cheated and there was no indication that the machines had been cheated but in 1986 the law finally catches up to him he serves another five years once he got out of jail back on the streets things had changed dynamically because of the electronics and the camera surveillance coverage and the type of machines video machines rather than real machines computer chips and motherboards and all this stuff is out there now it's all Dennis's previous treating devices they're antiques they're basically useless but Nick rash is more than up for the challenge he sets out to adapt his skills to the computer age so when he went back to the Genovese crime family and was hooked up with a computer expert and once Nick rash gets his hands on an updated slot machine he comes up with a way to beat the new technology he was re-engineering computer and code and finding out how to corrupt that code how to rewrite the code and more importantly how to erase the code when the scam was done so that he he couldn't be discovered they create a small device they could sneak into a casino and this handheld computer would have to be inserted into the circuit board placed on top of the RAM where they would input the winning combination dennis was able to override the computer by piggybacking one computer chip on top of another two computer chip inside the machine and set up the jack there's just one last detail to address not getting caught he would usually have a group of people with him they're called blockers and their jobs were to block the cameras and block security guards from seeing what he was doing after they decided which sock machine in which casino they would hit they would set up cameras surveillance cameras in his garage at a similar angle and then he and his blockers would practice how to block the cameras and they would know exactly where they were supposed to stand in the fall of 1996 Nick rash and his team hit the casinos thinnest a crash would set up his blockers into the casino he was used his locksmith skills to open the door then he would insert his handheld computer and install the winning combination once he completed that which only took a matter of seconds then he would leave the casino and the collector would sit down hit the button wheels to start rolling the blockers would move away and the cameras would show the winning combination rolling into place the team's first hit is modest for Nick rash $30,000 but he soon grows bolder eight months later Nick rash and his team take Harris for 3.8 million dollars then they cheat the Rio and Luxor and other casinos for millions more Dennis Nick crash usually took about 70% and split 30% among all his assistants he stole and stolen stole - something's going to happen the cameras gonna be right here on two o'clock up around the corner for the cheat to keep working Nick rash regularly replaces his team she had to have different people collect because you can't have the same person at one casino when a three million dollar jackpot and then two days later win another jackpot at a different casino so he had to have collectors that he could cycle through the problem was having a large team of people working together as somebody's gonna get unhappy somebody's gonna get in a fight somebody's gonna rat you out [Music] in 1998 Nik rash is plotting his biggest heist yet the mega bucks jackpot worth 17 million dollars he has Vegas in the palm of his hand but 300 miles away his plan starts unraveling one of his accomplices got in trouble with the FBI in Phoenix Arizona he started talking about Dennis Nick rash and how he was cheating as slot machines working with the FBI the Nevada Gaming Control Board gets a search warrant for Nick Rash's home detectives find two slot machines along with dozens of cheating devices in his safe deposit box they discover the handheld computer he uses to cheat the slots after a two-decade crime spree that Nets 16 million dollars the king of slot sheets reign is finally over Nick rash is arrested for the last time Dennis Nick rash is convicted and offered a deal by prosecutors a lighter sentence in exchange for revealing how his scams work as a criminal Nick rash is a consummate professional he refuses he later tells interviewers I have no desire to explain anything never smarten up a chump he is sentenced to seven and a half years in prison he is released in 2004 and dies in 2010 and the secrets to his extraordinarily successful cheats died with him but in Vegas legends live on and Dennis Nick rash has secured his place in the cheater Hall of Fame Dennis Nick rash is one of the greatest cheaters we've ever caught in the history of Nevada there's a lot of cheaters out there and hopefully they're not as successful as Dennis Nick Rush was only time will tell if another criminal mastermind is out there right now a future hall-of-famer beating the casinos with a cheat no one's ever pulled off before the message I would give to someone who's thinking of cheating Vegas is practice practice practice because we're good we do this all the time we do it every day so you should be good when you come in to do it you're probably gonna end up in jail and and that's permanent you know you're gonna get caught [Music]

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Length: 47min 44sec (2864 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 04 2020