Off-Strip casinos are full of security, so how do they keep getting robbed?

Saturday, January 7, 2023 2:56 PM
  • Brett Clarkson, Las Vegas Review-Journal

It’s one of the more famous scenes from Martin Scorsese’s movie “Casino,” when Robert DeNiro’s character Sam Rothstein lists the myriad layers of security that go into protecting the fictional Tangiers from cheaters. At the top of this food chain: the all-seeing surveillance cameras.

“And the eye in the sky is watching us all,” he says, a line that holds true in the real Las Vegas outside of the movies.

So how is it that there have been four unsolved robberies of off-Strip casinos across the Las Vegas Valley since November?

Experts say the casinos have no interest in taking a robbery situation and risk turning it into something more violent or tragic.