Video shows one of them walking right back into the casino, tailed by cops, zig-zagging through the gaming floor, entering a bathroom and, ultimately landing in cuffs.Ĭarlos Rodriguez and one alleged accomplice, Justin Knecht, face robbery, conspiracy and other charges.īill LaTorre is a retired Marine and state police sergeant who now does security consulting. His big winnings taken and the gunman and SUV gone, he rushed inside to dial 9-1-1.Īn app for tracking his stolen iPhone helped police locate suspects back near SugarHouse. 'They just said, 'Put your hands up and, if you don't, I'll kill ya.' So I put my hands up,' he told us. 'I did not even think for a second that I was getting away from that without being shot,' he told us. The patron, who asked us to hide his face and change his voice, feared the worst. I thought maybe, you know, I over-tipped him, maybe I dropped money … until I looked out of the corner of my eye and saw a gun pointed at the side of my head.' 'And, for a split second, I thought it was the cab driver. 'When I get out of the cab, within a second someone was right up against me,' the patron said. Now, he's driving an SUV just two vehicles behind the departing taxi.
A man - who cameras showed several times standing nearby as the patron played cards for more than five hours, even leaning on his chair - left moments before.
