Choctaw Casino Ex-Worker Allegedly Stole $10K from Oklahoma Gaming Venue
A former employee at Durant, Okla.’s Chahta Casino allegedly swiped $10,000 from the property’s burial vault in October. He is at present veneer court of justice proceedings, KXII, a local TV station, reported.
Gregory Caleb Perry, 37, formerly was a overleap clerk at the casino. That gave him get at to the money stored inward the vault.
He allegedly stole 100 $100 bills and stuffed them into his shirt, court of law documents claim. Ralph Barton Perry allegedly set some of the money into a camber account statement belonging to his girlfriend, Mitsy McCulley.
Perry spent some of the dirty money on gambling, lawcourt costs, fines, restaurant meals, bars, medical bills, and a stick at the Choctaw Casino Resort, according to KXII.
Perry allegedly spent between $500 and $600 of the money at the casino. He also spent $80 on drinks at the A. E. W. Mason Jar Bar, KXII said.
His charges are not straightaway available.
The Chahta Casino is operated by the Choctaw Nation. It is believed to be the third-largest Indian land inward the US. The nation has o'er 200,000 tribal members and more than 11,000 employees.
Mississippi Casino Theft
In an unrelated case, Reginal Brown, 36, a former employee of the Pearl River Resort — Silver Star Casino inwards Mississippi River pled shamed inwards Apr to theft past an employee of a gaming ecesis on American Indian lands. He will avoid prison clip but must pay a fine.
Brown was a spread server at the Silver Star Hotel & Casino. Between January and May 2016, Robert Brown used his watchword to steal or so $10,800 from the cash in recyclers in the casino, MS Acting US Attorney Darren J. LaMarca said inwards a statement.
Casino managers discovered the variant in accounting records. There was also grounds on gambling casino surveillance cameras.
Choctaw Police Department investigators interviewed Brown. John Brown admitted to taking the money, LaMarca said. Brown was indicted by a federal grand panel inwards Dec 2018.
Brown was sentenced to five years of probation endure month. If he fails to successfully finish probation, he could human face a harsher sentence.
He must also pay $10,800 inward restitution, based on the sentence imposed past federal District Margaret Court Judge Kristi H. Johnson.
Brown faced a upper limit penalty of 20 years inward prison and a $1,000,000 fine, LaMarca said.
The cassino is operated past the Magnolia State Band of Choctaw Indians.
Minnesota Case
Also, inwards Mar 2021, a former tribal gambling casino supervisor pleaded hangdog to embezzling to a greater extent than $300,000 from Minnesota’s Fortune Bay Resort Casino during a nearly seven-year span.
Jennifer Lynn Boutto, 32, of Orr, Minn., was sentenced to VIII months inward prison house for peculation and theft of tribal funds. She was also placed on single twelvemonth of supervised release. Boutto must also cater total restitution of the $315,739.87 to the tribe.
Boutto said spell workings at Fortune Bay Resort Casino, owned and operated past the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, she executed nearly 3,000 fraudulent transactions for her financial gain.
As a front-desk supervisor, Boutto issued hard currency refunds to customers without verbatim supervision. Boutto confessed that she stole money past issuing untrue hard currency refunds against the invoices of previous Fortune Bay customers.
Boutto retrieved the refunds but kept the hard currency for herself.