2 arrested in Rio casino heist of $32K in chips

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police have arrested two people and are searching for a third person allegedly behind the robbery of a Las Vegas casino where a suspect wearing a fake mustache and a fedora grabbed $32,000 worth of gambling chips and then pulled a gun on a dealer who tried to stop him.

Las Vegas Police said they would reveal new details about the arrests involving the early Thursday morning heist at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino during a press conference scheduled for 10:30 a.m. today. They declined to provide details about the arrest before then.

The robbery comes two months after $1.5 million in chips was stolen during an early-morning stickup at the nearby Bellagio hotel-casino. The suspect in that heist, 29-year-old Anthony Carleo, was arrested earlier this month.