Copycats have started....couple busted for using fake chips at Maryland Live Casino

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02-25-2014, 10:07 AM
NaturalBornHustler

Copycats have started....couple busted for using fake chips at Maryland Live Casino

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/0...d-live-casino/

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HANOVER, Md. (AP/WJZ) — Maryland State Police have arrested two people from Virginia and are looking for two others in connection to a counterfeit poker chip scheme at the Maryland Live! Casino.

Mike Hellgren reports state police recovered fake chips floating in a lake in Virginia.

The investigation began Jan. 20 when casino security officers called in police after finding dozens of counterfeit $100 poker chips. The court document states the chips were larger than standard chips used at the casino and at least one was a $1 chip from Charles Town Casino in West Virginia that had been painted.

Casino staff identified four people from northern Virginia as the likely source of the counterfeit chips and the warrant served last week in Fairfax County states investigators believe they made thousands of dollars over several days.

Those charged are identified as Rosa A. Nguyen, 36, and her husband, Vuong Q. Truong, 37, both of Annandale, Va. Nguyen is charged with one count of theft between $1,000 and $10,000, and two counts of conspiracy to commit theft between $1,000 and $10,000. Truong is charged with four counts of committing a theft scheme and one count of conspiracy to commit theft.

Police believe Rosa Nguyen purchased $150,000 worth of counterfeit casino chips via the Internet for $12,000. The chips were then altered to appear similar to Maryland Live! Casino chips.

One of the suspects tried to discard the chips in Lake Accotink in Springfield, Va., not far from the suspects’ home. But the chips floated, and investigators were able to recover about $115,000 worth of the counterfeit casino chips.

Police are seeking charges against two additional suspects in an unrelated case of fraudulent chip use at Maryland Live! Investigators believe these two suspects, a boyfriend and girlfriend also from Northern Virginia, obtained $1 chips from a West Virginia casino and altered them to appear as $100 chips from Maryland Live!

The case remains under investigation.

Fucking asian gangs trying to get their piece.
02-25-2014, 11:11 AM
simpdog

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The investigation began Jan. 20 when casino security officers called in police after finding dozens of counterfeit $100 poker chips. The court document states the chips were larger than standard chips used at the casino and at least one was a $1 chip from Charles Town Casino in West Virginia that had been painted.

LOL. If you're going to do this, at least get the size right.
02-25-2014, 01:12 PM
BeerAndPoker

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02-25-2014, 03:11 PM
bukowski72

This article gave me bit of small world feeling although I live in NC..

I have been thinking of moving near this casino. Maryland Live is huge casino and poker room attached to an upscale shopping mall. There are some nice McMansion type neighborhoods right around the casino. I have also been looking(on the internet) at houses on the ocean/sound that are about 20-25 minutes away.

The part that really made me laugh was them throwing the chips into Lake Accotink in Va. This is not a destination place. If the police didn't know who the suspects were throwing them there screams I am local who lives with 15 mins. of this place.

My favorite Lake Accotink story involves a Darwin Award Winner. There is a railroad trestle at the Lake. A guy decided to bungee jump off the trestle. He took a bunch of bungee cords you use to hold luggage on your car and taped the connections together. He tied the cords to the trestle and made sure they didn't touch the ground. They didn't. What he didn't take into account was that these bungee cords would have never stayed together long enough to support his weight...AND THEY STRETCH. He took all that time to put these together and straight jumped into the ground and his death.
02-25-2014, 03:21 PM
NaturalBornHustler

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Originally Posted by bukowski72

This article gave me bit of small world feeling although I live in NC..

I have been thinking of moving near this casino. Maryland Live is huge casino and poker room attached to an upscale shopping mall. There are some nice McMansion type neighborhoods right around the casino. I have also been looking(on the internet) at houses on the ocean/sound that are about 20-25 minutes away.

If you don't plan on spending 300k plus make sure you like living with the nigs. Even at that price point it could be questionable, tons of government jobs around here that make finding non chaotic neighborhoods a challenge. They bring the hood right with them to the burbs around these parts.

Oh and there is no "ocean" within 25 min of this place. The only water is the Chesapeake Bay, extremely expensive on the west side, redneck hickville to the east.

There are pockets of little suburbs here and there but nothing like you are used to in NC I can tell you that much. Prepare to downsize.