On Thursday, the man who was indicted for allegedly robbing the Bellagio casino resort was charged with a separate casino robbery. Anthony Carleo was re-booked by Las Vegas police for the crime of robbing the Suncoast Hotel & Casino five days before the Bellagio was hit.

On April 21, Carleo pleaded not guilty to robbing the Bellagio casino. He is suspected of barging into the casino on December 14, 2010, wearing a motorcycle helmet to hide his identity. The suspect then robbed the casino at gunpoint, making off with $1.5 million in casino chips and fleeing the area on his motorcycle. Carleo was later arrested when trying to sell the stolen chips to undercover officers.

In the course of the investigation, Carleo was connected to the robbery of the Suncoast Casino on December 9. The man who robbed the Suncoast of $19,000 in cash used the same methods and appeared to be the same person.

The investigation also uncovered the fact that Carleo searched “tips for robbing someone” on his home computer three days before the Suncoast was robbed. Shortly before and after the robbery, Carleo accessed his cell phone within a short distance of the casino.

If stupidity was a crime, we would already have enough evidence to convict him. Stupidity is not a crime, though, so prosecutors will need more than that. There is enough circumstantial evidence that, along with him being caught trying to sell the stolen chips, he could end up getting convicted. The trial for the Bellagio robbery is scheduled for January 10, 2012. The preliminary hearing for the Suncoast robbery has not been scheduled.

Tags: Anthony Carleo, Bellagio heist, gambling crime, Suncoast casino robbery

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