First time?s a charm?- 2005-09-15

Police believe this to be the first ever incident recorded in the UK, whereby criminals use electronic equipment to swindle a casino.

This could have been a scene taken out of the next George Clooney and Brad Pitt incredible heist movie: three individuals suspected of using small hidden cameras and ear-pieces to communicate, and cheat their way to winning at Poker in a London casino.

Having been arrested on charges of trying to defraud a gambling establishment, the suspects -two men and a woman- were taken into custody by British police forces, following a conjoint maneuver orchestrated by the UK Casino Security Managers Association and the casino’s own surveillance department.

Upon further investigation, it is thought that the trio had illegally pocketed over ₤250,000.00 in at least six London casinos using the exact same scheme. Employing a clever system of micro-cameras beaming pictures onto a computer, the thieves would communicate via audio arrangements, enabling them to con Poker tables.

With greater access to sophisticated devices, and user friendly gizmos easy to dissimulate as well as carry, casinos are bound to become the new playing ground for witty scam artists. In this modern day and age it is said that technology is a double-edged sword. In this case it proved to be both the apparatus to plan the operation, and the incriminating evidence used to catch the authors of the felony.

James Bond beware…

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