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Police looking for suspect in sports book armed robbery at casino on Nevada-Utah line

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 18, 2017 - 2:20 pm
 

WEST WENDOVER — Police are looking for an armed robber who held up the sports book at a casino on the Nevada-Utah line.

The Elko Daily Free Press reports an adult male brandishing a pistol entered the Wendover Nugget Casino at about 12:15 a.m. Monday and robbed a clerk at the sports book.

West Wendover police say the suspect who was wearing a Green Bay Packers ball cap took off with an undisclosed amount of money.

Police say he also was wearing a wig with fake long hair and a beard. He’s described as a white man in his mid 30s to 40s, between 5-foot-8 and 5-foot-10, weighing 150 to 160 pounds.

He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, tan pants and tan shoes.

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