Our little air-duct bandit got caught:
"A federal fugitive who escaped police by climbing up into a Provo hospital rest room ceiling and fleeing on a catwalk Wednesday night was recaptured several hours later at a North Salt Lake home.
Wade Leon Willis, 31, was arrested without further incident when members of the Utah County Joint Criminal Apprehension Team, acting on an anonymous tip, raided the apartment near 1139 Ouray Ave., about 1 a.m. Thursday.
Willis, reportedly nabbed as he tried to climb out a window, was booked into the Davis County Jail in Farmington without bail on a U.S. Marshals hold order."
If any of you remember someone robbed the ballagio taking 25,000 chips adding up to over a million and the casino was going to discontinue the chip so they couldn't cash in. Here's what happened:
"Cops in Las Vegas made a bust in the brazen casino robbery in which a motorcycle helmet-wearing thief swiped $1.5 million worth of chips from the posh Bellagio hotel in December.
Anthony Michael Carleo, the 29-year-old son of a Las Vegas municipal court judge, was arrested late Wednesday after he tried to sell some of the high value chips to undercover cops, police said.
In an odd twist, the suspected thief was a staying at the Bellagio when police picked him up, The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Vegas cops said Carleo was the gunman who garnered national attention after pulling off one of the most bizarre chip heists in the recent history of Sin City.
In the robbery, which occurred at 3:50 a.m. on Dec. 14 and was captured on surveillance video, a pistol-wielding bandit wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet strode calmly up to a craps table and demanded cash.
After the dealer turned over fat stack of chips ranging in value from $100 to $25,000, the gunman jogged back to his motorcycle, which was idling outside, and sped away.
Security guards at the casino said they didn't try to stop the thief because they wanted to avoid a shootout.
Shortly after the robbery, the Bellagio announced plans to discontinue the $25,000 chip in April, setting a deadline for the thief to try to use them.
After the robbery, experts pointed out that stealing casino chips wasn't the same as stealing cash because each casino's chips are unique and generally not interchangeable.
Cops also said that the thief would have a hard time cashing in his booty due industry safeguards."
Is it just me or are there no smart villains anymore?
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Wow! Sounds like Happy Valley has the start of a crime wave on their hands. Better start sleeping with the doors and windows locked from now on!
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