Sioux Falls, South Dakota Casino Robbed, Bandit at Large After Stealing Cash
A Happy Jacks Casino placed in Siouan Falls, South Dakota was robbed early Wednesday. Police were stock-still searching for the suspect later inward the day.
At around 1:20 am, a man went into the gaming locus and handed a threatening observe to an employee, according to KELO, a local TV station. The bandit and then fled with an unrevealed amount of cash. No piece was shown.
The surmise is white and about 5 feet, 10 inches tall. He was wearing a blood-red gabardine jacket at the time.
Prior Sioux Falls Holdups
Other Siouan Falls gaming venues were targets of robberies inward recent years. In Dec 2020, an unidentified piece robbed an unidentified littler Siouan Falls gaming locus as he brandished a handgun, KSFY, another local TV station, said.
He had grabbed the build up of an employee and then scooped upward the money. In addition, Sioux Falls police responded to 2 armed robberies at local casinos inward November 2020.
One prior robbery took localize at Aces Casino. type A masked bandit, who was holding a firearm, confronted an Aces employee and demanded money from a cash in drawer. a back robber stood guard. Before any money was swiped or injuries took place, the worker was able to leakage to a nearby room. He locked the door.
The brigand ran cancelled with an unspecified amount of cash. There were most a half dozen people inward the gambling casino at the clip of the robbery.
The robber was reported to follow nigh 6 feet tall. He was white and was wearing a gamey plaid hooded jacket.
Another robbery took station nearly the same clip at the Crown Casino. One robber demanded money and the other man stood guard. In that case, workers gave the bandits money before the duo fled.
Store Robbed with Machete
That same month, a convenience store employee inward Siouan Falls escaped trauma after a piece entered the hive away with a matchet and lingered inwards the location, identified as a Food-N-Fuel, police force said. The store also housed gaming machines.
Police identified him as LaShawn Billie Jean Moffitt King Owens, 45, of Siouan Falls. He was supercharged with provoked assault, carrying a hidden weapon, and unsuccessful person to vacate, the Argus Leader, a Sioux City newspaper, reported. It was unclear Midweek what happened to the charges against him.
In July 2020, a knapsack that was mistakenly left hand behind during a holdup of Ambrose Everett Burnside Game Place led to the halt of 2 bandits past Siouan Falls police, the Argus Leader reported.
Demetrius Remall Jackson, 39, of Sioux Falls, was charged with robbery and ownership of marijuana and paraphernalia, the report said. Davon Darnell Clark, 33, of Palmdale, Calif., was supercharged with robbery, ownership of marijuana, and failure to vacate, the account adds. It was unclear what happened to these cases in local courts.
Prior to those holdups, in that respect was a robbery fling of a casino and gas send inwards Siouan Falls inwards belatedly 2019. One of the incidents was an armed robbery at Jokers Casino, KSFY reported.