Las Vegas Casino Marker Defense Attorney

Nevada is one of the only states in the country which prosecutes people for Felony Theft by Check when a casino patron bounces a casino marker.  Nevada treats casino markers like checks.  Here’s how it works.  You are offered a line of credit with the casinos.  You then must fill out an application and receive authorization from the casino for a credit line which is supposedly based on your ability to pay the marker back.  You then sign the marker with the amount of credit requested.  The marker looks like a check but does not have your bank routing number and checking account number on the marker.  After you gamble your line of credit and lose, the casino prints the patron’s bank routing number and the checking number at the bottom.  After several days or weeks, the casino deposits the marker.  If there is not enough money in your account, the marker, like a check, is returned for insufficient funds.  From there, the casino will contact you with a certified letter.  If payment is not made, the casino forwards the casino marker to the Bad Check Unit at the District Attorney’s Office.  At that point, the District Attorney prepares a warrant for your arrest which is signed by the judge and put in to the FBI warrant database.  If you are pulled over no matter where you are in the country, you will be arrested and eventually extradited to Las Vegas on a prison bus wearing a jail uniform and handcuffed to your chair sitting next to defendants who are charged with all sorts of crimes – far worse that what you have been charged with!  In the prison bus, there is no toilet and only a bucket that is passed around to relieve yourself (i.e., you cannot have a bowel movement while on the bus since there is no toilet on the bus.)  The bus drivers can keep you on the bus for up to 72 hours at a time.  Rather than run the risk of being arrested and put on this prison bus, it’s a wise choice for you to call me and I can tell you how we can avoid the whole prison bus process so you are never arrested and have to go through this harrowing ordeal.  On a final note, in some cases, bankruptcy can actually block prosecution.  I have worked with bankruptcy lawyers from all over the country and have been able to stop the casinos from using the District Attorney to prosecute my clients for their unpaid markers.  Just recently, I was able to dismiss a client’s case who owed $700,000 to where he never even had to pay a penny back and I got another client’s case declined for prosecution who owed $5.5 million – he too never had to pay a penny back!  It’s complicated process but call me and I will explain it to you.