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Casino Heists & the Lost Wallet

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0:05 All right, we got a news update on that. Remember that casino in Summerland that got robbed? >> Yeah, the Rampart one. Yeah. >> Yeah, the Rampart Casino got robbed. They actually released video of uh the suspect like getting away, >> bro. He got away in such a high-tech fashion. >> You'll be very impressed. >> Was in a drone. >> But not only that, >> hanging on to a drone floating away. They're offering a a cash reward for anyone with information on it. And the cash rewards. So, >> this guy did it. >> How much money are they giving away? >> No, dude. >> This guy did it. >> Hey, give me give me a give me a grand. >> This Pasadena did it. >> We'll see if you think this is a good enough uh money for you turning in your buddy. >> Is it $40 or some ████ >> In other news tonight, the FBI is now offering a $5,000 reward following an armed robbery. >> I mean, I'll take five grand. >> Sharing this surveillance, hoping it will help someone. That's him. That's

0:55 him getting away. >> What the hell? >> Oh, that's the squad >> riding a bicycle. Police say he pointed an AR style rifle cashier's cage and stole money. >> About two weeks ago, officers released this video of the suspect. You see him right there wearing a ballistic helmet, sunglasses. >> How much did he take? >> Walking up to that casino cage right there. A security guard approaches. Then the suspect pulls out. >> Oh ████ >> Guard jumps back right there. The FBI is now offering that cash reward for information leading to his arrest. >> They got something though. How much are they? >> That might be genius. >> Everybody was saying this guy could probably pay everybody to not talk. >> Damn. That's kind of genius on a bicycle. >> Honestly, it is >> cuz like if if you're like, "Oh, we got robber." And you're on the police intercom, I think everyone's looking out for cars, like suspicious cars. And if

1:45 you just see a guy like on a bicycle, the silhouette so small that night, you just kind of ignore it. >> That is true. Yeah. >> It's going to be easy to blend in. No tire tracks. >> I can't I just can't believe his plan worked. >> I know. >> Do you know how much he got away with? >> They don't. They didn't say they they won't tell anybody. >> You think this is going to spark more robberies like this where they're like that's how he did it? >> You know, think it would because you don't need that much. This is a very low tech execution >> robbery. If you're into minimalist robberies, this is what you do. >> It's sad that it's I mean, even a small casino has hell of money, but it's sad that they rob the uh local casinos. And this wouldn't fly at the big ones like Venetian or Palazzo or whatever cuz uh those ones I've heard from people that work at those casinos the minute you walk in they know everything you have on your body cuz they have everyone has a heat signature so you don't know but as soon as you walk in everyone's getting

2:35 scanned right away. >> Wow. >> You walk into like an MGM they know they know this guy's wearing a thong the ████ he has his tassels and ████ like that. They know right away everything that you have on your body. >> So what happened? >> I can't go to casinos anymore. So, what happens if we're concealed carrying and we're just walking around and then like >> they know, but they don't also they don't have that staff to like swarm you, but they already go, "Okay, that guy has something. Let's just >> That guy's got a nice little piece on him." >> Yeah. >> But then like a small one, I don't think they're not like multibillion dollar company. So, I don't know if they could do that. That's why he just walked in with the ████ full AR under his jacket. >> It's just crazy that the like it's not like they didn't know he was in there. Like that guard was right in front of him. Yeah, >> he didn't have a bunch of people to tell on a radio that could at least >> I know, right? He couldn't call for help >> to his bike. >> But also, when you get like a gun

3:26 pointed at you and who knows, that guy could be like a retired 70-year-old guy like oh ████ >> Yeah, but then the person behind the desk, don't they have like do they have those things that banks like a little button? >> Just thought it'd be easy to like kind of at least like there he goes. >> Hey, get him. They just chase after him a little bit. >> But for them to lose him like they lost him. They don't know what like what how did he do that? >> That's true. After the fact. >> Exactly. Yeah. >> Not track them after the fact. >> Yeah. Got cards. Can't they just like slow that rifle real? Cuz don't people sometimes use fake ones? >> Yeah. >> Or they use their finger or a pen sometimes in the movies. You ever see that? >> No. >> They just do this. >> Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> What's the law, too? Some people just write a note too and then and then say it that they have a gun >> like in uh like I wonder what the law is like if it if you have um

4:18 >> this could be just me making it up but I thought like if you're in a casino >> and with a certain amount of money if they have a firearm then you can return fire right away. >> So if the minute he takes the money he starts walking away couldn't the security guard just go bang bang bang bang bang. >> Huh? Maybe. But I wonder if the protocol is, you know, like how some protocols in places they're like when someone steals, don't do it. >> Yeah. Just least pathist. >> Let them like leave the area for safety and then the police will just find them later. Like that's the safer >> a shootout while people are trying to like gamble. >> Yeah. Is that kind of why this happen? >> That's true. Because if the minute you hear a bang, the whole casino freaks out and like you have thousands of people >> and then that's probably more detrimental reputationally for the property. If like a shooting were to happen and someone were to get killed, maybe it's one of those things where they as soon as they see him getting

5:08 away, they're like, "All right, get him as far away from the property as possible." >> He's like, "But that's too far. I don't know where he went >> now. We don't know where he is. We lost him." >> Doesn't even follow. That's how old this casino is. Cuz even at Target, we were able to use the camera to ████ follow people in the parking lot. >> Or what if they didn't? Because you know, they're not they they're not disclosing how much money was taken, right? What if he didn't even get anything good? >> Yeah. >> That's probably why the reward is 5,000. >> What if he got a,000 and the reward is 5,000? Thousand once. You know, >> he lose money over it. >> Cuz it's more about like the reputation, right? They're losing more money on the reward than the robbery. Because if you think about it, right, I've seen people lose 10 grand in a second. So, I'm like, the casino probably just they they made that $2,000

6:00 back, but they're like, I got to show them what's up or else they're going to be copycats. >> I don't think I've seen like a reward so low for something on the news in a while. Like, that's >> a $5,000 reward cuz usually I feel like it starts at like 10 grand or something, right? Like 10 or 100 even >> at least. But and it's funny and that and some of the time when it's a private person putting up the reward, it's more than 5,000. This is the casino. >> They should have gave you like free rooms, a suite to stay in. >> Like it's like $5,000 worth of vouchers you could use at the casino. >> Yeah. Yeah, that's the catch. >> I take that. >> Yeah. Blackjack credits only. Blackjack credits. That's why people were like, "Anybody that this dude actually knows that would rat on him, he could probably afford to beat this price."

6:50 >> Yeah. If it's like a Oceans 11, like imagine you you take like millions, right? Like you have like a $100 million heist. And then they get they're like, "If you tell on them it's $5,000 and then you're like if you don't tell on me, it's six." >> Man, would you ever like do you see yourself Let's say that you actually knew a person that robbed something and there was a reward. Let's say the reward's like 30,000, right? You don't even like this guy. Would you be a rat? >> I don't like him. Like, I hate him. >> Yeah. I do it for free. If I don't like somebody, I'll do it. I won't even ████ take the money. I'll be like, give that ████ to charity. >> You mean Ryan, for 30 grand? >> Yeah. >> Rat out a guy I don't like. He gets to be locked up in jail. >> Yeah. >> 30 grand. I would rat you out >> even though I'm innocent. >> No. No. I wouldn't make it up. I didn't

7:40 even I didn't even do anything. >> I keep getting blamed for crimes I didn't do. I'm like again who keeps telling people I'm doing it. You even have an alibi. I was in Europe and they're like nope. >> And I just keep sending you the new stuff I keep buying. >> She has a new purse. >> What do you What do you guys think about guys that like fix it? Like let's say he rides right and he's like this man's ████ up. I can't believe I did that. He rides his bike back and he goes, "You know what? I should not have taken it. Here's money. You think they should let him scot-free or they're like Cuz most people they just get arrested, right? Like that's the guy that stuck. >> Yeah. Yeah. I think you have to arrest them because you got to >> I think I think you got some good will. >> I think you could let him. Yeah, >> you got some good will, but you still got to do like two years or whatever. >> Maybe not two years. Maybe it's just like >> I think I think you could >> you could probably judge whether or not this person is is uh fit mentally after

8:30 you've arrested him. True. >> And if he seems okay and he really was just sorry, then they can let him go. But I think either way you got to cough just in case. So you got to you got to take him in. Yeah. >> Ah man, I shouldn't have done that. That is actually kind of crazy. >> I think that's where cuckoo bros, man. >> What if your conscious kicks in, you know? >> Yeah, but then you shouldn't have to drop it like hire Uber courier or something. >> Like don't don't be the person that brings it back. >> Like put the money in a bag, put a note, sayawi and a heart >> and then kick a shopping cart into the casino >> and then bike away. You know what's always been kind of sad? You know how like let's say there's like a the ATM glitched and it spit out like $100,000 that if you kept any of it, you've committed a crime. >> That's ████ >> Yeah, that's pretty messed up. Like that's the same as stealing it.

9:20 >> It's not your money. If you know that >> it is invite Bonos, dude. >> If you know that you have $5,000 in your account and 10 grand comes out, you're not like, "Oh, thank you ATM." It's mine now. >> Like it's not trying to be nice to you. Like it glitched. >> So when it rains, do you get buckets of water throw back at the clouds? >> I didn't pay for this. Threw my water me. >> Oh my gosh, that's so different from the ATM giving you. >> It's the closest thing we got. >> Yeah. >> Have you ever just found money like randomly? You ever just found like cash? H like on the floor or like in my pocket >> or not even like on the floor but like where like in an envelope somewhere just randomly? >> I don't think so. I've found a wallet before. >> Oh, what happened with that? >> I returned it.

10:11 >> You saw the license? >> Yeah. >> After she took the cash. >> No. >> Yeah, it was empty when I got it. Sorry, man. >> Take anything. >> Go to that that lounge that Joe told me about with this American Express. >> Return a wallet and you're like, "Oh, okay. This is his address." And you go to the guy knocking on the door and he's just trying to like hit on you. That was his like pickup. >> Sick. That's actually That's kudos, bro. >> You cuz he wanted to talk to you. >> Yeah, that's next level. >> Would you would you be impressed and be like, "All right, I'll sit down for dinner. The candle light tables already. >> Sounds a little manipulative." >> All at one time and I was asked out. >> No way. Shut the ████ up. >> Holy ████ For real? >> We're doing 20 on this. Keep the cameras rolling.

11:01 >> Wait, what happened? >> That only happens to girls. >> It only happens to Filipino girls. >> It was a Shut up. >> I was in high school. I was in high school. >> How old was the guy? >> This He was in high It was at my high school. >> Oh. Um, >> do you guys know each other? >> One or two years older. >> You guys knew of each other or No. >> No. >> Oh, okay. >> Didn't know each other. >> All right. Um, and then he ended up >> open up his Velcro wallet. >> Hey, here's your biker chain, bro. >> I don't remember what kind of wallet it was, but I found it on the floor. So, then I actually gave it to him. I knew that he knew uh like a friend of mine, like you know, at the school. So, I gave it to her to give to him and then he like reached out to me and thanked me all that stuff. And then eventually he actually asked me to prom. >> Whoa.

11:51 >> Yeah. This is actually a really mean story. I'm going to keep going. >> Yeah, dude. >> Oh, dude. That's ████ up. >> It's one of the most ████ up things I think I've ever done. >> No way. >> So, you kept the cash? >> No. No. >> It's still about that. >> His identity and I opened up a bunch of credit cards. >> No. No. >> A check for me. >> How did he ask you to prom? Like, what did he say? >> It was after my dance show >> and he came with like roses. It was actually really sweet, like roses and stuff in front of everyone. And so I >> But was it like abrupt? Like all of a sudden you you you save his wallet and then like out of nowhere he comes back. He goes, "I want to return the favor." And then I'm going to take you to prom. And you're like, "What the return favor?" But >> you guys didn't have that much rapport

12:41 at the time. Is that what it was? Let me do something nice for you. >> Interested in him like that. And so, but like because of the pressure of being in front of everyone post a show to a dance show, I said yes. And then later on I went back and I said no, which is literally I it's I still I still feel really guilty about that. That's that's so messed up. >> How did you even go back and say no? How did you bring that up? Like what did you tell them? >> I think I eventually I was like, you know, I'm so sorry. I know I said yes, but I just I I don't I can't go to prom with you. >> Did you end up going to prom with someone else? >> Spoke to me again. >> Oh, >> you you went with someone else to prom? >> I went with someone else to prom. But were you guys already friends? >> We weren't friends. We weren't friends. I think I maybe hung out with him one other time. >> Oh, so you guys already like we would know >> like after like the whole >> exchange of the wallet and you became you you hung out one time.

13:32 >> I hung out one time. Yeah. >> And then he just got >> cuz he was a mutual friend. So now it was kind of like oh okay like you know. But then >> I thought it was like one of those funny examples of like he's smitten by you and then like you guys are talking about the wallet thing, but he like looks more deeper into it. He goes, "Oh, she's into me." And then like >> Oh, like he thinks >> Yeah. Yeah. But she's just trying to give him his wallet back. >> For me, finding his wallet was completely coincidental. Like I couldn't have planned that. Like I didn't steal his wallet to give it back to him. >> Damn. >> He planned it. He for sure planned. >> That's so ████ up. I can't believe he did that. >> Honestly, it's >> so mean. I honestly that happened in high school and I still think about it where I'm like I'm >> mean. No, isn't that display and basically like made you like answer in front of everybody like it's a proposal. >> What he did was really sweet though if you guys were on the same page. >> Yeah. If I were into him then it it was

14:23 really sweet. He didn't do anything wrong. I just I also am not good in a high pressure situation like that where I can say like no in front of everyone. >> Who would say no in front of that? That's embarrassing as ████ right? >> He's supposed to be on the same page with you like, "Oh, we're talking so she's going to like this s███." To me, that reminds me of like those um surprise engagement proposals and the and the girl's like, "What?" at the half court. >> Yeah. >> And you know, he's jumping the gun so he could try to secure her. >> He He uh did a hell Mary basically. >> Yeah. >> But do you regret it? Do you wish you had done the opposite? >> She wish you did the right thing. >> She wish you said ████ no. >> I don't know. You ever like been approved for like a car loan and then you're like yes and you're celebrating and then later the manager comes out like I'm sorry we didn't approve you. That's what it felt like and I feel so bad. >> Oh my gosh.

15:14 >> That's what you did to him. >> Imagine if the car loan guy asked you to prom. >> But you wouldn't change anything about it, right? The thing I would change about it is I wish he hadn't asked me. That's true.

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