COPS HIT JACKPOT: BELLAGIO BANDIT BUSTED

Carleo

The Heist

THE BELLAGIO bandit, who escaped the infamous Las Vegas casino with more than $1.5 million chips after a daring gunpoint heist, has seen his luck run out. 
Anthony Carleo, 29, the son of a Sin City judge, was busted on the same casino floor where Cops allege he carried out his brazen robbery.
Back in November lawmen were left astonished by the thief's nerves of steel after watching him pull up outside the Bellagio - one of the most heavily guarded casino's in the world - walk up to a craps table,
pull out a gun on the croupier and walk out a millionaire.

At the time Police commented that the robbery which took around three minutes was: "about as quick as you can do it."
Las Vegas police Lt. Ray Steiber said Carleo, who offered no resistance when he was arrested, returned to the scene of the crime several times before his luck finally ran out, police said Thursday.

He added: "He likes to gamble."
Cops recovered $900,000 in chips, and can account for $1.2 million, Steiber said.
They are still looking for the black Suzuki GSXR they say Carleo used to make his getaway but he wouldn't say whether police still believe the same man robbed the Suncoast casino in northwest Las Vegas at gunpoint early Dec 8.
Previously however, they have said the same person was suspected in both heists.

Carleo's father, Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge George Assad, issued a statement through a publicist.
He said he and his family were "devastated and heartbroken to see my son arrested under these circumstances."

He added: "I can say that as a prosecutor and a judge, I have always felt people who break the law need to be held accountable."

Carleo is a former real estate broker and student who declared bankruptcy in Colorado in May 2009, owing nearly $188,000 in various debts. 

Listed among his personal belongings a .40-caliber Taurus pistol.

Cops noted after the heist that stealing $1.5 million in chips isn't like stealing the same amount in cash because they are unique to casinos. 
 After the heist, Bellagio announced plans to discontinue the casino's $25,000 chips in April, setting a deadline for the thief to try to use them.
However Cops  have not said whether Carleo tried to redeem the chips — which ranged from $100 to $25,000.
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