A Nebraska man has been arrested for allegedly scamming a South Dakota casino out of $350,000.
According to court documents, Roberto Orellana, 44, of Omaha, contacted an employee at the Grand River Casino near Mobridge, claiming to be a representative of a company collecting fines and performing an audit on the casino, which is owned and operated by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Orellana convinced the employee to make a $350,000 payment to ‘prevent ‘further fines’. That was followed up by a text that the employee believed was from his supervisor directing him to transfer the money into a Bitcoin machine in Aberdeen.
