Unhappy with casino security, man steals keys, phone from security vehicle
Newtown ND December 27 2018
A 25-year-old man told police he stole car keys and a cell phone from a 4 Bears Casino security pickup truck because he had issues with a security guard.
Oscar Angeles was charged Wednesday with unlawful entry into a vehicle, a class C felony, as well as one class C felony and one class B misdemeanor count of theft. He was ordered held on $5,000 bond.
A McKenzie County Sheriff’s deputy arrested Angeles Friday evening after she reviewed security camera footage from Dec. 8 that showed Angeles taking items out of a pickup that belonged to casino security, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed in Northwest District Court. The casino’s head of security told police that Angeles had taken an LG Stylo 2 smartphone and the keys to the truck.
The video showed Angeles look into the passenger side window, then go around to the driver’s side, open the door and reach inside, court records indicate. After taking something from the vehicle, Angeles went back to his own car, police said.
A deputy spoke with Angeles at the casino’s security office, and Angeles admitted taking the keys and throwing away the phone, charging documents state. He said he’d been at the casino on Dec. 8 and was gambling and that he got drunk.
“(Angeles) said that he comes back and forth to the casino a bit and that he has issued with a security guard, but doesn’t know the security guard’s name,” a deputy wrote in the probable cause affidavit. “He said that he saw the security truck and that he said he wasn’t going to steal the truck, so he just took the keys and tossed the phone.”
Angeles gave the deputy to look in his car, and the deputy found the truck’s keys in the center console, according to charging documents.
Angeles is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing on Feb. 7.