Earlier this month, a Nevada man was arrested following his alleged identity faking of a Las Vegas Hotel Owner, coercing hotel employees to give him over $1 million, as reports convey.
According to a Fox 5 report, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police states that a hotel employee reiterates how the Nevada man was able to coerce him into giving the money. The cashier cage Supervisor of the hotel, located on Fremont Street, was contacted by a man, ordering him to give $320,000 as an emergency payment for fire safety devices to the fire department.
The supervisor agreed to give the money to the Nevada man at a gas station. The said exchange happened two more times following the first one, bringing the total amount stolen to an exact amount of $1170,000, as reported by the news station.
Authorities have tracked down the vehicle used by the person during the gas station transaction, leading them to a Nevada man named Erik Gutierrez-Martinez. Discovered in his house are bundles of cash separated and labeled, “Circa”. Investigators are still on the lookout for the remaining money as they only got $849.000 from searching the Nevada man’s home.
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On June 18, Gutierrez-Martinez was arrested and charged in connection to his fake identity scheme. He was held on $25,000 bail, as ordered by the judge.
In response to the said scheme, Derek Steven the CEO of Circa released a statement via Twitter.
“Although I love a good PR story, this isn’t one of them,” he said on Twitter. “@CircaLasVegas is cooperating with @LVMPD in this investigation. We greatly appreciate their efforts to date and cannot comment further due to an ONGOING investigation.”
The whole report has shown great similarities with what happened in Clark County and another state according to a Fox News article.
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