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A floor supervisor and his ace roulette
dealer teamed up with a patron to cheat their Iowa Horseshoe casino out of some
thirty grand.
Their roulette cheat scam was rather basic
if not altogether amateurish. The dealer and the supervisor simply looked the
other way as their cohort roulette player made late or pastposted bets on the
layout. On many spins, the dealer
himself pastposted the bet or added chips to a winning bets after they had won.
The dealer most likely had some of the
cohorts chips palmed during play and simply dropped them on the winning number
as he swept away the losing chips. This is not a new scam and usually gets
discovered by casino surveillance long after its inception.
In this case, the roulette cheat scam fell
apart when another roulette player not involved in it became aware of the
hanky-panky taking place on the layout. He alerted another supervisor who, unfortunately
for the crooked supervisor and dealer, was not in on the scam. Surveillance was
then notified and a three-month investigation gathered enough evidence to
charge the guilty parties.
Roulette supervisor Jonathan Rumery, 28;
roulette dealer Jonathan Waugh 24; and roulette patron Cody Schroeder, 28, were
all charged with cheating at gambling and conspiracy to cheat at gambling.
My take: Well, the “Jonathan Brothers” had
a pretty good run for an Iowa casino cheat scam, but now they´ll never work in
another Iowa casino again, and probably not in any casino. And to boot they´ll
probably get some county jail time to think about it.
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