Colorado authorities are investigating a mountain town casino heist of $500,000 in cash — the biggest theft from a casino that state regulators can remember since gambling started again in 1991.
The theft from the Monarch Casino Resort and Spa, located 34 miles west of Denver in Black Hawk, occurred March 12. Casino cashier Sabrina Eddy, 44, has been jailed on suspicion of theft and was still in her cell Tuesday afternoon, according to a Gilpin County Clerk deputy who spoke on the condition her name wouldn’t be used.“While we can confirm that the theft occurred,” Casino spokeswoman Erica Ferris said, “this is currently an active and open investigation and Monarch is making no comment.
Surveillance cameras captured images of Eddy putting $50,000 bricks of money into a box and then loading that money into a gold-colored minivan, the affidavit said. She left the casino, and later returned and went to the vault and took more money, then drove as she said she’d been instructed to St. Anthony’s Hospital in Denver — and handed the money to a man near the emergency room, the affidavit said.
Colorado Division of Gaming officials, charged with regulating the gambling industry, declined to discuss this heist, other than to confirm “active administrative and criminal investigations” into what happened.
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