Divorced Couple Rob Arcades by Impersonating Gaming Officials: Report
The couple who doesn’t stay together, can still commit crimes together.
Most divorced couples are focused on co-parenting together – not co-conspiring to commit crimes. However, one former married couple proves that a couple who doesn't stay together can still pull off felony crimes together. A new report out of Florida involves a divorced couple who managed to successfully rob two gambling arcades together twice in one day, getting arrested the second time around.
According to the Lee County Sheriff's Office the unnamed couple pretended they were gaming commission investigators, complete with name tags and a holstered pistol, hitting two arcades in North Fort Meyers in one day.
However, when the real Florida Gaming Control Commission got a call about it, confirming their agents didn't visit either arcade, things went south for the former flames.
According to the report both robberies happened on Monday, June 26, and involved a man "dressed in a uniform shirt with a patch labeled US Security Associates and a holstered firearm" and a woman "wearing business attire and had a lanyard around her neck with an ID card."
At the 777 Arcade in North Fort Myers the couple told staff members "they were from 'The Gaming Commission' and stated the business was operating illegally," according to the sheriff's office. "(They) instructed the victim to turn over currency from the safe for documentation: $660.00, a computer mouse, and a DVR system were taken by the pair as they left the business," officials said.
Next, they hit Quick Hits Arcade in North Fort Myers, using the same routine to get "just over $2,000." However, Real Time Intelligence Center analysts aided in identifying the man via surveillance and facial recognition software.
"The vehicle the duo drove away in was registered to (the woman's) child. … Tactical Narcotics Team members nabbed (the suspects) during a traffic stop near their home in Cape Coral. Evidence was located during the traffic stop that linked the duo to the heists," the reports say.
The man, 48, has been "charged with impersonating an official, fraudulently obtaining property, and driving while license revoked," officials said. The woman, 51, was charged with fraudulently obtaining property.
