“The sad part is that even management is a large part of our arrests every year.”īetween 250 to 500 casino employees are arrested by the GCB each year, he said, making up about 25 percent of all GCB arrests annually. “No matter what their titles are, everybody needs to be watched,” he said. James Taylor, deputy chief of the Gaming Control Board enforcement division, told a crowd of about 200 casino operators on Monday during the first day of Global Gaming Expo, that theft occurs at nearly every level of casino operations. The Nevada Gaming Control Board had 574 arbitration cases in 2015, disputing $51.8 million and made 602 criminal arrests. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow jobs, chip grab-and-runs and craps cheats are the largest ongoing headaches for casinos and casino regulators.Īnd it’s the most basic scams that can be hardest to catch. 26, 2016, at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas. Former Bellagio craps dealers and their friend's photos are displayed as James Taylor, deputy chief for the Nevada State Gaming Control Board, presents current and ongoing fraud schemes and current trends in casino crimes Monday, Sept.
