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Another Fake Chip Incident: Husband and Wife Team Busted
Posted by: Randy Williams - Wed, 2014-02-26 14:59
The use of counterfeit chips at various casinos and poker rooms across the nation has apparently become quite fashionable lately. Whether the crooks perpetrating such schemes learn from each-other or whether the various incidents involving fake chips aren’t linked in any way, is anyone’s guess. What is certain though is that such incidents have become extremely frequent and that the similarities among them are quite striking indeed.
The latest report regarding the attempted use of counterfeit chips in a casino comes from Maryland, where a husband and wife team tried to pass such chips at the Anne Arundel County Casino.
The two tried to pass the chips on January 20, according to the Maryland State Police, and they targeted the poker tables on two occasions with $100 chips. According to the results of the subsequent investigation, 37-year old Vuong Q. Truong and his 36-year old wife, Rosa A. Nguyen of Annadale, Virginia, had paid about $12k for counterfeit casino chips worth around $150k. They then modified the chips to make them look just like the ones used by the Maryland Live! Casino. Apparently, the two perpetrators had tried to get rid of some of the incriminating evidence, by ditching the chips in Lake Accotink, but unfortunately for them, the quality of the chips was so dubious they actually floated, allowing police to skim some $115k worth of them off the surface of the water.
The above described fake chip incident came about a month after the notorious Borgata Winter Poker Open counterfeit chip scandal, which resulted in the cancellation of the $2 million guaranteed event with 27 players remaining. Christian Lusardi, the perpetrator who had attempted to flush his remaining fake chips down the toilet, clogging the pipes, was arrested.
Apparently, the above said husband and wife duo weren’t the only ones passing fake chips at the Maryland Live! Casino. A younger, boyfriend and girlfriend couple was apparently also involved.
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