Police are hunting an employee of Soboba Casino after colleagues recognised the man who locked them in vaults as he made off with over $1 million in a daring, or stupid, heist on the mecca.
It seems that suspect Rolando L Ramos was so brazen as to wear his security technician uniform and badge as he robbed the people who paid his wages.
The 25-year-old had apparently been casing the joint, working at the casino in Riverside County in San Jacinto for over two years and maintaining the casino's CCTV system.
In the early hours of Thursday morning, Ramos allegedly asked a security guard to escort him into the vault area, purporting to be fixing the video surveillance.
Finally, toting a gun, he tied up four of his colleagues, pepper-spraying one, and ran off with as much as $1 million of the $2 million that was in the vaults at the time, officials said. Riverside County sheriff's deputies confirmed that no shots had been fired and no one had been injured. "I don't think [the guests] were even aware of what was going on until the doors were locked down," said Assistant Sheriff Pat McManus.
Meanwhile a search of Ramos' apartment has revealed theatrical makeup, which authorities suggest may mean he was trying to hide his identity. Hmm, maybe you should've taken your uniform and ID badge off then buddy.
"We consider him armed and dangerous," McManus said and is now launching an international manhunt.
Police are hunting an employee of Soboba Casino after colleagues recognised the man who locked them in vaults as he made off with over $1 million in a daring, or stupid, heist on the mecca.