Gannett may earn revenue from sports betting operators for audience referrals to betting services. In a loose sense, Frank Abagnale from Catch Me If You Can might be a more apt reference. First, in actually posing as another person, and second, in going all in on a con job for that extravagant amount of money. The employee believed she was on the phone with the hotel’s owner and texting with her manager, police said.ĭocuments also indicate she believed she was meeting with the hotel owner’s attorney.” “The payments totaled $314,000, $350,000, and $500,000, plus three smaller deposits, resulting in a loss of $1,170,000 to the hotel, documents said. Gutierrez was later arrested on June 18 and has been charged with theft of over $100,000 at the time of this writing.
Gutierrez then allegedly proceeded to have his payments come in different installments at different off-site locations over an undisclosed period of time.
As a result, he successfully convinced an actual hotel employee - the casino cage supervisor - to give him over $1 million in fake payments for fire safety equipment.
There are elaborate Las Vegas “heists,” like those from the Ocean’s Eleven film series, then there’s what this young man allegedly pulled off.Īccording to KLAS-TV Las Vegas, 23-year-old Erik Gutierrez pretended to be the owner of Circa Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas.
