You've probably seen it on the news, the guy who boldly robbed the Bellagio casino of $1.5 million in gambling chips has been caught.
Anthony Michael Carleo, 29, also known as Anthony Assad, is the son of Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge George Assad and is a UNLV biology student.
According to newspaper reports and public records, Carleo was a longtime resident of Pueblo, Colo., where he was a real estate broker and owned two businesses, one a mobile disk jockey service, the other a limousine service co-owned with his stepfather, Gino Carleo. Anthony Carleo filed bankruptcy in Colorado in 2009, and reportedly was living at the Assad home in Las Vegas at the time of his arrest.
He was arrested after he met undercover officers to sell high-value chips taken in the Dec. 14 heist, law enforcement sources said. He had a room at the Bellagio at the time.
Carleo is also suspected in the Dec. 8 robbery of the Suncoast casino poker cage, which netted $20,000, police said. It's unclear if Carleo has been charged in the Suncoast incident.
On his Facebook page, which was removed Thursday morning, Carleo wrote about moving to Las Vegas from Colorado last summer, high-stakes poker dreams and a fondness for the Bellagio.
Carleo had dreamed of medical school after college, according to his page.
"I am a Junior at UNLV and cannot wait to get to Med School to start a profession that I can be proud of," he wrote.
Because of the large denominations of the chips ($100 - $25,000), police and gaming industry insiders speculated the robber would never be able to cash them without giving himself away.
Viva Las Vegas!