Las Vegas Review-Journal: poker player calls in bomb threat during break from table
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Antonio Planas of the Review-Journal reported today on the strange case of a man who threatened to blow up the Bellagio while he was playing poker at Mandalay Bay.
A Las Vegas man who was playing poker at the Mandalay Bay late Jan. 1 did what many gamblers do: He took a break from the tables.
But Macario Acopiado’s next move, according to Las Vegas police, was to go all in on the longest of long shots.
Acopiado, 46, is accused of placing a call from the poker room phone to an employee at another MGM Mirage resort, Bellagio, and threatening to blow up the Italian-themed hotel and casino if he didn’t get $10,000 within five minutes.
MGM Mirage didn’t fall for the bluff. Acopiado was jailed early Jan. 2 on felony charges of extortion and making a bomb threat.
