ID suspectin Las Vegas chips theft

A California resident is suspected of being the thief who stole $1.6 million in chips earlier this month from the Venetian Casino, Las Vegas police said. Akingide Cole, 31, of Palmdale, Calif., has been identified as the man captured on security video taking a number of high denomination chips from a closed part of the casino, KVVU-TV, Las Vegas, reported. Police said the thief was able to pry open a case containing the high value chips with a tool he might have taken from a private employee area. "Anybody that comes back to the casino to try and cash the chips in or tried to play with them will be met by security," said Lt. Robert Duvall of Metro's Tourist Crimes Unit. Police described Cole as a light-skinned black man, about 6-feet, 225 pounds. They released a booking photo of him from a previous arrest.