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Several Pennsylvania gaming properties and one in Atlantic City wound up getting fake bills last year, leading to the recent arrest of three suspects, with another person still on the loose. Pennsylvania’s Wind Creek Bethlehem pictured above. It was the scene of the alleged passing of counterfeit bills in 2019. (Image: Wind Creek) In total, $16,000 worth of 150 fake bills were passed at Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem now called Wind Creek Bethlehem as well as Parx Casino, Valley Forge Casino Resort, Harrah’s casinos, and SugarHouse Casino now Rivers Casino Philadelphia, reported Lehigh Valley Live.com, a local online news site. ....
Group used $16K in fake bills at then-Sands Bethlehem, 4 other casinos, AG says Updated Dec 19, 2020; A group from Philadelphia is accused of using thousands of dollars in counterfeit money last year at Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem and four other Pennsylvania casinos. Kiara Kristin Purnell, Mahagany White, Nieem Johnson and Marcus Davis allegedly passed a total of 150 fake bills in the spring of 2019 at the Sands (now Wind Creek Bethlehem), Parx, SugarHouse (now Rivers Casino Philadelphia), Valley Forge Resort and Harrah’s casinos. Three have been arrested, and authorities are still looking for the 31-year-old Purnell. The four each face charges of forgery, theft by deception, possessing instruments of crime and conspiracy in Bucks County Court. The charges were filed by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office and Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Gaming Enforcement. ....
Four Philadelphians have been charged for allegedly passing $16,000 worth of counterfeit bills at casinos in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in April 2019, including 20 counterfeit $100 bills circulated at Harrahâs Philadelphia Casino and Racetrack in Chester. Mahagany White, 33, of the 500 block of North Felton Street, Marcus Davis, 44, of the 600 block of North 13th Street, Nieem Johnson, 37, of the 4400 block of Leiper Street, and Kiara Kristin Purnell, 31, of the 1700 block of Watkins Street, each face charges of forgery, theft by deception, possessing instruments of crime and conspiracy. The charges were filed in Bucks County by the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General Bureau of Criminal Investigations Gaming Unit and troopers from the Pennsylvania State Policeâs Bureau of Gaming Enforcement. ....
AG: Four passed $16K in counterfeit bills to Parx, other casinos Four people are accused of passing thousands of dollars in counterfeit bills to area casinos, including Parx Casino in Bensalem, last year, according to authorities. On Tuesday, the Attorney General s Office filed charges alleging Philadelphia residents Kiara Kristin Purnell, Mahagany White, Marcus Davis and Nieem Johnson, passed the bills in April 2019. White, 33, and Davis, 44, are charged with forgery, theft by deception, and conspiracy to commit those offenses, all of which are felonies, as well as a misdemeanor of possessing an instrument of crime. Purnell, 31, and Johnson, 37, who have not been arraigned on the offenses, face the same charges. ....