Payroll team members at Rivers Casino Des Plaines detected that some of the mailed paychecks had been altered in who the checks were made payable to.<\/p>\n
Local police said after reviewing the paystubs it appeared the names and amounts on the checks had been altered. The checks were mostly cashed at currency exchanges and other quick-cash establishments in the Chicago area.<\/p>\n
\nI would urge any victim of mail theft to contact local law enforcement and the Postal Inspection Service as soon as possible so we can better investigate the crime and hold those responsible to justice,”<\/strong> said Spencer Block, a spokesperson for the US Postal Inspection Service.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nRivers did not say how much the value the alleged theft of the mailed checks totaled.<\/p>\n
To reduce the chances of mail theft, Block encouraged the public to only drop mail in official US Postal Service collection boxes before the last daily scheduled pickup, or to hand mail directly to a postal worker inside a post office.<\/p>\n
Table Game Theft<\/b><\/h2>\n It’s been a busy month for Rivers Casino Des Plaines security. In addition to the allegedly fraudulent checks, the casino needed law enforcement back on Dec. 19 when its surveillance team caught a gambler allegedly in the act of cheating.<\/p>\n
Christian Savitz, 35, of Waukegan, was charged by the Des Plaines Police Department after the casino said he cheated while playing baccarat. Casino security’s “eye in the sky” said Savitz was caught moving his chips to a winning section of the felt while the dealer was distracted.<\/p>\n
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Savitz was wrongly given $1,005 by the dealer. He then immediately tried to cash out his winnings, but was later intercepted by security. The Cook County State Attorney’s Office subsequently approved of a felony theft by deception charge against Savitz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A Class 2 felony because the alleged theft involved stolen value of property in excess of $150, a person found guilty of such a charge in Illinois faces as much as seven years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rivers Casino Des Plaines in Illinois believes more than a dozen employee paychecks were intercepted in the mail and illegally cashed. Coowned by Churchill Downs and Rush Street Gaming and fully operated by the latter, the payroll department at Rivers Casino Des Plaines earlier this month observed discrepancies in some workers’ cashed paychecks. Casino management […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":250513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[13766,84326,82228,84327,84325,83146],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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