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Palmdale Man Executes Successful Robbery of Vegas Casino
Akingide Cole/Photo courtesy of LASD
At some point, everyone wants to test things out and see if they could pull off an “Ocean’s Eleven.”
But while most of us stop at the fantasy, one Palmdale man went for broke and acted the whole Vegas heist thing out. The L.A. Sheriff's Department is now seeking the public’s help in finding 31-year-old Akingide Cole, who's accused of gaining access to a behind-the-scenes area of the Venetian casino in Las Vegas and stealing chips of various worth.
The incident allegedly went down on October 10. Security cameras captured Cole as he did his dirty deed, as evidenced by the above photo.
Cole is described as about six feet tall, 225 pounds and with short, dark hair worn in a partial Mohawk. No one was with him at the time, and no weapons were used in the robbery.
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