Employees at a casino hotel in Downtown Las Vegas skimmed cash registers, police said, stealing roughly $300,000.
Siraprapha Rattana, 44, and Christina Carbonell, 49, face one count of grand larceny in connection with the three-year scheme at Binions Gambling Hall & Hotel on Fremont Street. Rattana and Carbonell were cashiers at a real estate cafe, according to the Metropolitan Police Department report.
Rommel Soriano, 53, who police said was a waiter and also involved in the scheme, faces one count of theft, valued at $5,000 to $25,000.
According to the arrest reports, Soriano admitted to initially taking $20 from the job, but later began taking $200 at a time.
The three were arrested in February after an audit at Binions last year revealed significant cash irregularities linked to transactions processed by Rattana and Carbonell, according to police.
Court records show Rattana and Carbonell, who were released on bond with conditions prohibiting them from visiting the Binions or committing any more crimes, have preliminary hearings on April 20 and 22.
Soriano has also been released from custody, although details of his bail were unclear.
“Intentional, repeated and coordinated”
After reviewing surveillance footage, the cafe’s transaction records and point-of-sale logs, police found that Rattana and Carbonell would apply discounts or manually reduce the transaction amount, keeping the discounted cash amount for themselves.
The report stated that investigators concluded that Rattana and Carbonell stole the value of the rebates they issued, a total of $298,160.43. Police said the thefts, described in the report as “deliberate, repeated and coordinated,” occurred between November 2022 and April 2025.
Rattana and Carbonell sometimes also passed Soriano the money from the cash drawer, police said.
“Although the theft was documented through the teller ID numbers of Carbonell and Rattana, Soriano was also observed on video surveillance discreetly accepting money,” the report states. “Soriano also admitted to Officer Coranado that he had received money from both Carbonell and Rattana, but the total amount is unknown.”
According to the report, Metro also reviewed records for bank accounts belonging to Rattana, Carbonell and Soriano. One of Rattana’s accounts had cash deposits and withdrawals totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“The acts described constitute embezzlement, as the employees unlawfully appropriated funds entrusted to them by their employer for their own benefit,” police said in the report.
When officers asked Rattana to come to Metro headquarters for questioning, she initially replied, “No, thank you.” A day later, she agreed with her attorney to turn herself in to the Clark County Detention Center.
Attorneys for Rattana, Carbonell and Soriano could not immediately be reached.
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