In this case, the suspect employee issued cards to the customer utilizing several other different customers account numbers in order to try to conceal the transactions.
The 'free play' cards are routinely given out to customers as an incentive/reward for being good customers, but each employee has a limit on the value of the cards that can be given out. In October 2018 the Maryland State Police and the Allegany County Combined Criminal Investigation Unit (C3I) initiated an investigation into allegations, first reported to the MSP, of theft at the Rocky Gap Casino after being contacted by management at the resort.ĭuring the course of the investigation C3I Investigators learned that a now former employee had conspired with a regular customer to use 'free play' cards to utilize on the different video games, which resulted in the customer winning a large sum of cash prizes.
