A high-profile $700,000 heist from Michigan casino last year has led federal authorities on a trail to Chicago, where a South Side man was arrested on charges of participating in a made-for-Hollywo…
A high-profile $700,000 heist from Michigan casino last year has led federal authorities on a trail back to Chicago, where a South Side man was arrested this week on charges of participating in a made-for-Hollywood scheme to impersonate the casino’s tribal operator and cage boss, court records show.
According to the charges, Gaytan-Garcia was one of three co-conspirators who stole $700,000 from the Four Winds Casino on the afternoon of July 23, 2023 — a heist that made headlines in Michigan both for the amount stolen and the unusual manner in which it went missing.that criminals were using “social engineering tactics to pose as casino executives” and direct cage employees to withdraw cash.
A bundle of cash allegedly found in a safe during an FBI search of Jesus Gaytan-Garcia’s home in the 5900 block of South Keeler Avenue allegedly still had a wrapper stamped with the date and location that $700,000 was stolen from the Four Winds Casino in Hartford, Michigan. At the direction of the caller, D.Y. drove the cash in her Chevrolet Equinox to a gas station in Gary, where she handed it over to two “unknown individuals” who had pulled up in a Chrysler Pacifica, according to the complaint.
D.Y. described the man she’d handed the bag of cash to as Hispanic, in his late 30s, with a goatee, wearing a gray construction shirt, the complaint alleged. She said the Chrysler then departed the gas station and headed east on Highway 20. Gaytan-Garcia’s wife and daughter, who were the only ones home during the search, told investigators that Gaytan-Garcia “seemed to suddenly have a lot of money” after July 2023, and that he’d paid about $90,000 for two trailer homes, one of which he lived in part time in central Indiana, according to the complaint.
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