Crown Casino Attacked By Thieves

Posted on Dec 15, 2011 in Australia Casinos

Land based casinos in Australian proceed with their pushes in entertainment, featuring big names in the celebrity world and expensive refurbishments and relaunches aplenty. The enormous casino make-over craze looks to have started in Sydney and from there spread over to Melbourne. Now Perth has its turn to take all the glory, but not without all the hassle you would expect to hit any popular casino. According to a recent report in Sydney’s biggest newspapers regarding The Star Casino (which was previously named Star City), the crime rates appear to be much higher than anybody would have thought. Australia’s land based casinos are starting to learn the home truth of “high risk, high reward” and in this case the house didn’t win. Good news for punters of course, but visitors to these casinos need to be vary. Casinos in the area are starting to become targets for car theft, and are being nicknamed “theft paradise” because of the ease of stealing from someone distracted by gambling.

Crown Casino of Sydney, which is controlled by James Packer, currently holds the record for most has punters out of pocket. Of the officially reported incidents, close to $400,000 in cash and other property have been stolen on the premises in only the last six months.

Crown Casino is not the only star of this story however, as their biggest competitor The Star (formally Star City Casino) has suffered just as badly.

There were a whopping 54 reported thefts from cars and motorbikes between 1st January and 1st July, a very short timeframe for such levels of crime. If you think that is bad, that does not even include the 44 incidents still residing within the “unsolved” category. In one of these cases, close to $9000 worth of jewelry was allegedly taken illegally from a parked car with an hour of the driver entering the casino.

“The target came back to her car to discover a smashed backside window” states a the official documentation of the incident on 16th June. Another customer of the casino $6500 stolen from his wallet, whilst INSIDE the casino’s high-rollers room. If you can’t feel safe in the Mahogany Room, all hope is not lost. This is certainly not a problem whilst gambling at Australian online casinos unless you happen live with some very untrustworthy room-mates of course.

Unfortunately for these poor victims, 47 of these 58 incidents are still “unsolved” despite comprehensive CCTV records of all the crimes detailed.