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 ...
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Jury finds man guilty of $700K tribal casino heist
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - A federal jury found a man guilty of his coordinated theft from a tribal casino, U.S. Attorney for the ...
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 ...
In August of 2023, a high-level employee at the Four Winds Casino in Hartford received a call they believed to be from a tribal chairperson instructing them to put $700,000 in a bag for an urgent ...
Authorities said the man convinced a casino employee to take $700,000 to a gas station in Gary, Indiana, to be handed off.
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.
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 ...
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 ...