Jesus Gaytan-Garcia was convicted for his role in a $700,000 casino scam involving the Hartford Four Winds Casino, ...

The theft stemmed from a call that was made to the casino in July 2023 by a person claiming to be a tribal chairperson who ...

Four Winds Casinos is owned and operated by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. It has three locations in Michigan—New Buffalo, Hartford and Dowagiac—and one in South Bend, Indiana.

A Chicago man who was convicted recently of interstate transportation of stolen money and theft from and Indian Tribal organization in Michigan is scheduled to be sentenced in April.

The case involves fraud that took place at Four Winds Casino Hartford in western Michigan's Van Buren County. The defendant in that case — 45-year-old Jesus Gayton-Garcia, of Chicago — will be ...

A federal jury has convicted a Chicago, Illinois man for posing as a tribal chairperson and stealing thousands of dollars ...

He helped convince a Four Winds employee to take $700K from the casino across state lines - now he faces up to 15 years in ...

On July 30, 2023, an employee at the Hartford Four Winds Casino answered a call from a man claiming to be the tribal chairperson. The employee was told that the caller needed to make an "urgent ...

The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of Michigan and Indiana and its Four Winds Casinos presented checks totaling $335,000 to 11 local organizations at a ceremony Wednesday at Four Winds South Bend.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - Pokagon Band citizens and the Four Winds Casino team are doing their part in giving back this holiday season. Earlier Tuesday, 200 Christmas food boxes were donated to ...

A Chicago man has been convicted in the theft of $700,000 from a Michigan casino. Investigators described a remarkable scheme in which an employee was tricked into stuffing cash into a bag and driving ...

Authorities said the man convinced a casino employee to take $700,000 to a gas station in Gary, Indiana, to be handed off.