Resorts World Casino Falsely Accuse Player Of Attacks
One of the commonly reported crimes in casinos is busting of slots of machines by players. Most times due to frustration, players might get angry and transfer their aggression on slots machines. One of such casinos that have had to face such attacks in recent times is Resorts World Casino In Queens.
Since opening in 2011, almost 500 people have been accused and arrested for various illicit acts including breaking slots machines. However, it seems that some of those accusations were false.
Pren Mrijaj, a Bronx resident, has come out to say that the casino has cultivated a habit of falsely accusing people of breaking the machines and detaining them until they pay for repairs. Mrijaj who is seeking class-action status in his lawsuit against the casino, calls what the casino is doing “larceny by extortion.”
“At least 150 people have been improperly detained by Casino personnel,” Mrijaj said in his lawsuit.
Angry and frustrated bettors are a common sight around slots machines. As Alan Zajic, a casino security expert puts it,
“If a person gets mad, they hit it with their bag or punch it with their fists and break it,” he said. “I will tell you it tends to happen more often in markets on the Eastern seaboard,” he said,
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Since opening in 2011, the Queens District Attorney’s office has confirmed close to 50 arrests for criminal misbehavior at the Resort World casino.
But Mrijaj insists his case is different. He was enjoying a quiet game at the casino when security guards interrupted his roulette game and took him to the basement.
In the court papers submitted, Mrijaj said the guards held him in the basement for hours, accusing him of damaging a slot machine but refused to show video evidence to proof their accusations.
Police were later called, and Mrijaj was arrested. The case was later dismissed. After a one year hiatus from the casino, Mrijaj decided to return to Resorts World, and he even placed a call to ask if it was okay for him to come back.
The casino gave him the green light. After a series of spins at the slots, he proceeded to cash in a $5000 voucher before the security guards apprehended him. He was taken to the basement and asked to pay more than $1500 in damages to the slot machine from the previous year.
