Rigby Man Pleads Guilty to Theft from Fort Hall Casino
John Mejia, 31, of Rigby pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Wednesday to a charge of theft of funds from the Shoshone-Bannock casino at Fort Hall.
Mejia was indicted in July 2011, on one count of theft from the Shoshone-Bannock Fort Hall Casino, where he was employed in 2010 as a gaming technician.
At the plea hearing, Mejia admitted that he took money from the casino by creating duplicate vouchers from gaming machines and redeeming the vouchers for money, the U.S. Attorney?s Idaho office announced Thursday.
He is alleged to have stolen in excess of $1,000.
Sentencing is set for March 21 before Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the federal courthouse in Pocatello.
The charge is punishable by up to 20 years in prison, a maximum fine of $1 million and up to three years of supervised release.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Fort Hall Police Department investigated the case.
