Career Slot Cheat to Appear in Las Vegas Court
A career slot machine cheat banned from Nevada casinos is set to appear in court tomorrow after his arrest last week. 46-year-old Michael Balsamo faces 12 charges including several counts of possessing and manufacturing a cheating device.
The state Gaming Control Board says he's also a fugitive from Missouri and Texas on gambling cheating charges. Board officials and police arrested Balsamo with his wife, mother-in-law and stepson at a Las Vegas home last Monday for allegedly using devices to make slot machines pay out in error. Slot machines, cheating devices and cash were seized.
Michael Balsamo has six convictions for cheating slot machines and was first arrested in 1979. He has been the subject of 25 investigations by gambling officials since then. He was banned from New Jersey casinos in 1984, indicted federally as a principal in a nationwide cheating operation and blacklisted in Nevada in November 1999. Balsamo is one of 36 people currently banned from casinos in Nevada.
June 15, 2006
Posted By Hector Rodriguez
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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