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The Badge in the Canal: How a Supervisor Stole a Casino Blind

The Badge in the Canal: How a Supervisor Stole a Casino Blind

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The Badge in the Canal: How a Supervisor Stole a Casino Blind

The badge pulled from a drainage canal was inside an evidence sleeve with red tape and a six-digit number - and it belonged to Gordon Wells, a cage supervisor who reported it stolen eight days earlier; how did a deactivated badge meant for shredding end up four miles away and tied to a lockbox that would upend the investigation? What secret did that lockbox hold that changed everything investigators thought they knew about missing casino cash?

In this episode, you will hear the sequence of discoveries from the badge in the canal to the audit that tracked unexplained variances across camera gaps and maintenance records, and how each detail raised the question: who was using which door to move cash without triggering access logs?

Person: Gordon Wells
Date: June 14
Location: Sulfur Flat drainage canal
Case: variance totaling approximately $61,000 (conservative) across 37 months; later estimated up to $88,000
Investigator: Emily Rafferty

- Badge found sealed in an evidence-style sleeve with red evidence tape and a rubber-banded index card showing a six-digit number.
- Badge was reported stolen from Wells's locked car eight days before it was found; parking lot cameras showed no one approached the car.
- Count room measured 12 by 16 feet, had one steel door with keypad and card reader, two ceiling cameras with no blind spots, and Nevada certification 18 months earlier.
- Audit identified 17 camera-gap dates over 14 months with shortfalls between $800 and $2,200, totaling $23,000 conservatively for that period.
- Hand cross-reference extended the pattern back to Wells's first day as supervisor, yielding a corrected total of approximately $61,000 across 37 months (forensic accountants later estimated up to $88,000).

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