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March 28, 2024

Police: Planet Hollywood supervisors netted $2,201 in scam

Four arrested after suspicious employee tipped off resort

Planet Hollywood arrests

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The four Las Vegas Strip resort casino supervisors and managers who were charged in an alleged plot to take phony jackpot payoffs netted a total of $2,201 in two days, according to police reports.

Nevada State Gaming Control Board agents arrested the four men at Planet Hollywood after months of investigation and a tip from another employee who became suspicious, said David Salas, deputy enforcement officer for the board. The investigation is continuing, Salas said.

Jonathan Sanner, Jason Peterson and Thomas R. Kordick, all of Las Vegas, and Scott Marshall of Henderson were arrested Aug. 21 by Gaming Control Board officers and Metro Police, Salas said.

The four are charged with felony crimes including theft, forgery and conspiracy to commit theft, according to police reports.

The four worked in pairs on Aug. 14 and Aug. 15 in the Planet Hollywood poker room, where "high hand" jackpots sweetened the payouts on 26 different hands, Salas said. If a player got one of those 26 hands, he or she would get a higher payment.

The four men are alleged to have controlled the forms required to fulfill the three layers of documentation needed before the resort paid a player for the special hands, Salas said.

"These four were working in concert to generate false documents to embezzle their employer," Salas said.

To work the scam, according to arrest reports, Sanner and Peterson made up three false names who had "won" a special poker hand on Aug. 14. Marshall and Kordick did the same for one fictional player on Aug. 15.

The men were in charge of signing off on the payouts and had access to the cash payouts.

Surveillance staff at Planet Hollywood noticed that none of the fictitious players -- with their fake names signed on forms by the men arrested in the scam -- had ever played poker, police reports said. Video footage also showed Kordick creating a $487 "high hand" jackpot on a Planet Hollywood record log. Then Marshall, as supervisor in charge, signed off on the payout.

Marshall is alleged to have taken $400 from the payout at Kordick's direction, keeping $100 for himself and giving Kordick $100.

Marshall claimed that Kordick falsified the "high hand" poker log to ensure the poker bank balanced at $120,000.

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