KILLED - NEW SHOW: The High Roller Heist

Episode Date: January 25, 2024

In the early morning hours of December 14th, 2010, Anthony “Tony” Carleo will walk into the Bellagio Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip adorned in a full motorcycle jumpsuit, gloves and helmet and pull a pistol, robbing a high stakes craps table of 1.5 million dollars in casino chips. This is the wild, “only in Vegas” true story of the guy who robbed the house, returned to the house and began living in it, like a king, for free.

In the early morning hours of December 14, 2010, a man adorned in a full motorcycle jumpsuit, gloves and helmet, walked into the Bellagio Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, and pulled out a pistol as he robbed a high-stakes craps table of $1.5 million in casino chips. Hi, I'm Jason Hoek, and my new podcast network, Waveeland, is on a mission to bring you wildly entertaining stories that you've never heard told like this before. You're just seconds from a special preview of our first series release called The High Roller Heist, the wild, only in Vegas true story of Tony Carleo, better known as the Biker Bandit.

The High Roller Heist is available now on all popular podcast platforms. And you can click the link in the description of this trailer right now to follow the show and start listening. Here's a sneak peek. Making a fortune in Las Vegas is the modern American dream. We've all heard the warning of, the house always wins. That the odds are stacked against every player who puts their chips on the table. But there are ways to beat the house.

It's something straight out of Hollywood, a thief is on the run with over a million dollars. All right, straight out of Oceans 11, casino heists are not purely the product of Hollywood's imagination. Few Las Vegas Casino Heists are as brazen as the one that occurred in the early morning hours of December 14, 2010. It just seemed very bold. I remember people saying it was ballsy, that was the technical term they used, and then it just got crazier. That was the technical term they used, and then it just got crazier. The big surprise was the amount. One and a half million dollars.

Wow. The crown jewel of the Vegas strip, the Bellagio, had just been robbed. I grab all the chips, I just turn around and book it. In and out, I was like three minutes and 58 seconds. I got on the bike and f***ing pinned it. The thief would end up playing a game of cat and mouse with authorities. It was a guy with a gun.

Setting off a truly gonzo series of events. It was a ton of money. That could only happen in a place like Las Vegas. We gotta make sure we get this guy so he doesn't do it again. Over that time, he'd earned a nickname that would cement him in the annals of Sin City Legends. The biker banned it.

He came into my room and he dumped the backpack full of chips onto my bed. And I was just like, holy s***. From Waveland in Pegalo Pictures, comes the story of a man who robbed the house. We ended up counting them and come up with this big s*** number. Returned to the house. If they know it's me, they're gonna tackle me the second I walk in here.

And lived in it. Chin's up giving me a $600 a night room. Full RF and B, which stands for room, food and beverage. Just sign whatever to the room, you go out and eat, and it's all comp. I lived there, man. This is the high roller heist. The pressure was already high anyhow, so I was like,

all right, game on. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. And that adrenaline really punched me in the mouth.