Another Case of Fake Chips at Maryland Live Casino

Police say couple tried to pass $1 chips as $100.

Posted by Todd Richissin (Editor) , April 10, 2014

 

 

If crime doesn't pay and gambling doesn't pay, then a gambling crime really can't pay, or so you'd think.

 

Police say a Virginia couple apparently thought otherwise, and they were arrested and charged with doctoring chips at Maryland Live.

 

Ngan S. Nguyen, 29, and his girlfriend, Dung N. Vo, 35 — both from Herndon in Fairfax County — were each charged with one count of felony theft, one count of conspiracy to commit felony theft and two other felony-theft-related counts, according to The Washington Post.

 

The charges were issued by the Anne Arundel County District Court Commissioner’s office, though neither Nguyen nor Vo has yet been served with a criminal summons.

 

The Post reports that investigators used surveillance footage as well as driver’s license data to record the alleged crimes, which they said were committed throughout the state’s largest casino.

 

Nguyen and Vo are suspected of altering numerous white $1 chips from Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races in West Virginia to make them look like black $100 chips from Maryland Live, according to a Virginia court document cited by the paper.

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