{"id":23760,"date":"2012-10-27T17:32:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T00:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=23760"},"modified":"2012-10-31T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T20:14:22","slug":"casino-heist-suspect-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/10\/27\/casino-heist-suspect-captured\/","title":{"rendered":"Casino heist suspect captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23761\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theavtimes.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Akingide-Cole-captured.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23761\" title=\"Akingide Cole captured\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theavtimes.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Akingide-Cole-captured-1024x632.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Akingide-Cole-captured-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Akingide-Cole-captured-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Akingide-Cole-captured-80x50.jpg 80w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Akingide-Cole-captured.jpg 1135w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akingide Cole was arrested in Los Angeles Wednesday by the Sheriff&#8217;s Department&#8217;s Major Crimes Unit, according to the Palmdale Station jail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PALMDALE \u2013 A 31-year-old Palmdale man wanted for sneaking into a restricted area and stealing $1.6 million in chips from a Las Vegas casino has been captured and taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Akingide Cole<\/strong> was arrested around 9:45 p.m. Wednesday at Reseda Boulevard and Roscoe Boulevard in Los Angeles and booked at the Palmdale Sheriff\u2019s Station at 12:45 a.m. Thursday, without bail, according to the Palmdale Station jail. Details on what led to Cole\u2019s capture were not immediately available Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday (Oct. 22), Las Vegas police identified Cole as the casino heist suspect believed to be responsible for stealing $1.6 million in high-denomination chips from the Venetian Casino on Oct. 10.<\/p>\n<p>A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police detective told KTLA 5 that Cole had managed to pry open the lock on a chip container after entering a closed off area in the casino. Cole had already cashed a small amount of chips from the stolen stash, the detective said.<\/p>\n<p>A warrant was issued for Cole\u2019s arrest for burglary, grand larceny and unlawful possession of burglary tools. Images taken from casino security cameras, along with Cole\u2019s physical description and booking photo from a previous arrest, were forwarded to media outlets nationwide on Monday. (Read <a title=\"Palmdale man wanted in Vegas casino chip heist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theavtimes.com\/\/2012\/10\/22\/palmdale-man-wanted-in-vegas-casino-chip-heist\/\" target=\"_blank\">more here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Cole was arrested two days later by the Sheriff\u2019s Department\u2019s Major Crimes Bureau, according to the Palmdale Station jail.<\/p>\n<p>Cole was convicted of domestic battery this past March, petty theft and vandalism in 2008, and battery on a police officer in 2006, according to Los Angeles County Superior Court records. All the cases were filed at the Antelope Valley courthouse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE \u2013 A 31-year-old Palmdale man wanted for sneaking into a restricted area and stealing $1.6 million in chips from a Las Vegas casino has been captured and taken into custody. Akingide Cole was arrested around 9:45 p.m. Wednesday at Reseda Boulevard and Roscoe Boulevard in Los Angeles and booked at the Palmdale Sheriff\u2019s Station [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}