\nA Northern Virginia couple who bet that they could get away with using doctored chips at Maryland Live has been charged, just weeks after another pair were charged in a similar fake-chip scheme, authorities say.<\/p>\n
\tNgan S. Nguyen, 29, and his girlfriend, Dung N. Vo, 35 \u2014 both from Herndon in Fairfax County \u2014 were each charged with one count of felony theft, one count of conspiracy to commit felony theft and two other felony-theft-related counts. The charges were issued by the Anne Arundel County District Court Commissioner\u2019s office, though neither Nguyen nor Vo has yet been served with a criminal summons.<\/p>\n
\tInvestigators used surveillance footage as well as driver\u2019s license data to record the alleged crimes, which they said were committed throughout the state\u2019s largest casino.
\n\tNguyen and Vo are suspected of altering numerous white $1 chips from Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races in West Virginia to make them look like black $100 chips from Maryland Live, according to a Virginia court document.<\/p>\n
\tThe couple arrived at the Arundel Mills gambling palace two nights before Thanksgiving, the document says, and proceeded to one of the table-game pits. Vo sat down and gave the dealer \u201cseveral\u201d fake black chips in exchange for \u201capproximately $400\u2033 worth of green $25 chips, then moved to a nearby table, where she lost a hand and then headed to the cashier\u2019s cage, the documents allege.<\/p>\n
\tThere, Vo exchanged two black chips and numerous greens for $625. She and Nguyen left Maryland Live less than 75 minutes after their arrival, having left at least 10 fake $100 chips behind, according to the court document; the fakes were \u201deasily identified as counterfeit.\u201d
\n\tInvestigators say they think the couple also passed counterfeit chips at the Charles Town casino.<\/p>\n
\tThe charges surfaced about a month after Rosa A. Nguyen and Vuong Q. Truong \u2014 both of Annandale in Northern Virginia \u2014 were charged with multiple theft and theft-related counts.
\n\tTruong has admitted to Maryland State Police that he purchased counterfeit casino chips on the Internet \u2014 paying $12,000 for $150,000 worth, authorities said. The chips appeared similar to Maryland Live\u2019s black $100 chips, and approximately $4,000 in fakes were recovered from the casino.<\/p>\n
\tMost of the rest were dumped in Lake Accotink, not far from Truong and Rosa Nguyen\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cFortunately for police, the chips floated,\u201d a Maryland State Police news release said. Authorities recovered about $115,000 worth of counterfeit casino chips from the water.<\/p>\n
Posted by:<\/strong> TommyC on April 11, 2014, 9:25 pm<\/p>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Dr Crapology on April 15, 2014, 2:13 am<\/p>\n \tDoc<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Skinny on April 15, 2014, 3:03 am<\/p>\n \tI agree they put in a lot of time that could have been used for some legitimate endeavor. But on the brains side, I am not sure they have anything that would be of an value to anyone. Anybody who thinks they can get away with scamming a casino which has more surveillance than the NSA is not at the top of the food chain when it comes to intelligence.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Northern Virginia couple who bet that they could get away with using doctored chips at Maryland Live has been charged, just weeks after another pair were charged in a similar fake-chip scheme, authorities say. Ngan S. Nguyen, 29, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}