Two 60-year old gamblers from Jefferson County were charged on Friday for a suspected abuse of a technical glitch they accidentally discovered at River City Casino in St. Louis. According to Missouri Highway Patrol's Gaming Division investigators, the married couple was able to cash out more than $300,000 due to a malfunction in the system which downloaded unearned winnings onto their reward cards.
The system error was discovered by Eileen Sheldon in 2014, when she made close to 3,000 downloads between October and December, cashing out over $500,000 worth of money. The rest was allegedly cashed out by her husband - Daniel T. Sheldon in the same period via 1,370 downloads.
Both of them were caught on video surveillance camera on multiple occasions, with Eileen also admitting to investigators that she was, in fact, aware of the malfunction - the transactions were voided by the system, but still credited the funds.
The couple was released form custody on Tuesday, on a bail determined at $100,000 each.
River City Casino has been operating in Missouri since March 4th, 2010., offering about 2000 slot machines and 55 table games.
Couple Accused of Exploiting River City Casino Glitch to Steal Over $300k
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norman222 6 years ago
It was the greed that took them out. They should have just taken slowly smaller amounts and maybe they would not get caught. Or take a lot at once and leave the country :) either way I agree with Kristian, if there is a glitch it is casinos problem, if it was other way around noone would protect players.
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Kristen Munoz 7 years ago
man that really sucks because in my eyes they did not cheat or really in the wrong. it not there fault the error was there . so why not take the money I believe anyone would have and should have . I hope they are not going to be punished for this . well lesson learned I guess I hope anyway.
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coolsongss 7 years ago
Oh, the unearning winnings are very big and the period of cashing it out is also very long. If it is only a few thousands over a day or two, it could possibly happen, as I thought. But, over some hundred thousands and for a few months. I don't quite have the sense of 2000 slot machines with 55 tables in the casino. I think...
Oh, the unearning winnings are very big and the period of cashing it out is also very long. If it is only a few thousands over a day or two, it could possibly happen, as I thought. But, over some hundred thousands and for a few months. I don't quite have the sense of 2000 slot machines with 55 tables in the casino. I think that 55 tables are not that many, but the 2000 slot machines come to me as a few of huge floors.
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rferry5 7 years ago
It does not make sense to me sounds like somebody was not doing their job how can a glitch like that with that amount of money and they keep going back to have win with more glitches casino managers wake up your employers that maintenance the machines should have caught this unless they are in on it too! rose
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leannep 7 years ago
I love this kind of story. Bizarre! I am curious to know exactly what kind of charges they are looking at, such as how many years they would get for that. Missouri Highway Patrol has a "Gaming Division" is even more surprising than the story! With 2000 slot machines, no wonder it didn't get noticed right away...whew...
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