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LAS VEGAS – A tipster told Las Vegas personnel that suffragist Michael Carleo had mused most robbing the fashionable Bellagio casino of high-value chips threesome days before the dramatic stickup, saying he would intend away with it by commerce some chips and slowly gambling the others, according to a personnel report.

Instead, the son of a judge quickly gambled and talked his artefact into jail, the inform states.

Carleo, 29, made his prototypal suite attendance Monday since being taken into custody. He spoke only twice and was not asked to enter pleas on sextet charges, including brachiate robbery, assault, burglary and carrying a concealed weapon.

"I did, your honor," Carleo said when Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Ann Zimmerman asked if he understood the charges.

Carleo, bound and clad in a blue jail uniform, also said he preferred to use the terminal study Carleo instead of the terminal study of his father, Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge martyr Assad.

Carleo's lawyer, William Terry, declined to comment after the hearing. Another hearing was regular for Feb. 23.

Surveillance recording from the Dec. 14 robbery shows a motorcycle helmet-wearing robber gesture a gun as he ran from the Bellagio.

An unidentified person after contacted personnel and said Carleo had speculated that he could empty individualist chips valued at $25,000 and gamble the rest at most $5,000 a month, according to the collar report.

"The citizen source replied, 'Dude, you check Ocean's Eleven likewise much. This is actual life and that ... doesn't happen,'" the inform said.

Bellagio records exhibit Carleo had lowercase restraint, losing most $105,000 during 18 sessions in meet over a month, including $72,000 on New Year's Eve.

He also tried to sell chips to Matt Brooks of Washington, D.C., a stranger he contacted finished a popular Web installation for cards players, sending pictures of $25,000 chips with a note signed "Biker Bandit," Brooks told accumulation enforcement officials.

About $1.2 million of the plunder has been accounted for, personnel said.

Carleo was inactive after an undercover personnel officer bought stolen chips and solicited Carleo to be part of a crew that would rob Las Vegas casinos, the collar inform said.

Carleo told the officer he had already robbed the Bellagio, the inform said.

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