NAPERVILLE, Ill. – An ex-convict was arrested and charged with the November 19 armed robbery of $134,324 from Illiana Financial CU after he was seen trying to exchange tens of thousands of dollars of the dye-stained cash at gambling machines at a nearby casino.
Police said Wayne Hill, 46, was arrested after he allegedly tried to gamble with some of the credit union cash at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Ind.
An Indiana Gaming Commission enforcement agent told police Hill had placed “red dye-stained” money into the machine. The cash was linked to the credit union heist by the red dye stains and straps wrapping the cash containing the handwritten initials of the credit union’s tellers.
More than $66,000 in dye-stained cash was recovered by the agent from a bag Hill carried at the casino and from machines where he had gambled, police said. Hill allegedly told the agent he “found the money on the side of the road.”
Hill also spent some of the stolen credit union cash at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino in Milwaukee, according to police.
Hill has served time in federal prison for at least two bank robberies in Chicago’s north and northwest suburbs.
