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Casino Worker Stuffs Bills Into Sweatpants

Posted on: Friday, 14 March 2003, 06:00 CST

Casino Worker Stuffs Bills Into Sweatpants

Source: Associated Press Strange News

DENVER - A casino worker named Crapps, too fat to fit into his company-issued pocketless uniform, stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the slot machines by stuffing the bills into his sweatpants.

Leonard Crapps, who is 5-foot-6 and 280 pounds, pleaded guilty last month to stealing the cash from the Gilpin Hotel Casino in Blackhawk.

He was put on 12 years' probation and ordered to repay nearly $200,000.

Crapps, 35, was assigned to help empty the slot machines after closing time by pulling full money canisters out and replacing them with empty ones.

He figured out how to open the tamper-proof canisters, and with his back to security cameras, stuffed the money in his pants.

His co-workers were required to wear pocketless jumpsuits that buttoned down the front. Crapps was granted an exemption.

"He couldn't wear a jumpsuit because he was too big," said Steve Roark, head of Jacobs Entertainment, which owns the hotel.

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