Clark County District Judge Jasmin Lilly-Spells said if Gutierrez Martinez completes his sentence at the Clark County Detention Center, he won’t have to spend additional time in a state prison.<\/p>\n
Otherwise, he could be given an additional 36-to-96-month sentence. The prosecutor said he played a vital role in the scam.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s a bag man for a highly sophisticated criminal organization,\u201d<\/strong> Clark County Deputy District Attorney Austin Beaumont said in court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nBefore sentencing, Gutierrez Martinez admitted to the judge that he did something that was \u201cvery stupid,\u201d according to Las Vegas TV station KLAS<\/em>.<\/p>\n\u201cI went into this to get something for nothing, and I am paying the consequences,\u201d Gutierrez Martinez confessed in the courtroom. “This isn\u2019t what I want to do or what I ever wanted to do,\u201d<\/p>\n
Caught Red Handed<\/h2>\n On June 21, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) officers seized $850K in cash at his home.<\/p>\n
The cash was stored in a \u201clarge bag of US currency bundled together with the name Circa written on the bundle,\u201d <\/strong>DailyMail.com<\/em> reported.<\/p>\nThe Circa is located in downtown Las Vegas. The money was part of a scam that netted more than $1M from thefts at Circa, Eureka Casino Resort<\/a> in Mesquite, Nev., and the Golden Nugget in Laughlin<\/a>, Nev.<\/p>\nGutierrez Martinez admitted to involvement in the Circa theft under the plea deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man linked to the theft of more than $1M from the Circa Hotel & Casino was sentenced to a year in jail on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":296417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,81886],"tags":[13766,23,13702,83146],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Las Vegas Casino Thief to Spend Year in Jail for $1M Scam<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n