NBC News online article - Heist TV -
A fugitive turns herself in after 12 years: She ran off with $3 million in Las Vegas casino cash. Before turning herself in, Heather Tallchief talks to Dateline about the cash, being on the run, and why she surrendered:
Back in the early ’90s, Las Vegas was going through a kind of identity crisis. It was the ‘family friendly’ phase.
But on that sunny, clear, quiet morning on the strip what was about to happen was a dark version of the Vegas fantasy.
It was over before most gamblers there were even awake: It was a perfect crime in broad daylight, pulled off by a mysterious woman.
It was a story of sex, magic, money and murder that made the movies look tame.
And over ten years later, the story isn’t over.
The tale begins on October 1, 1993, a Friday. Courier Scott Stewart and a partner jumped into the back of a Loomis armored truck loaded with weekend cash for casino ATMs.
With them was a relatively new driver — a 5 foot 10 inch beauty named Heather Tallchief. NBC News online article 22 October 2005
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The armored car was packed with more than $3 million in cash. ibid.
She got hired by our branch manager at the time because she was young and pretty … We serviced ATM machines on all of the casinos. ibid. Loomis employee
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I’m a fugitive. I’ve got a six-month-old. I need to get some money … I’m being somebody I’m not. ibid.
To be on the run takes a terrible emotional toll. And psychologically over the years I mean that wears on you. Sooner or later everyone has to pay for it. ibid. rozzer
Heather plead guilty to two counts of embezzlement and one count of obtaining a false passport. She was sentenced to five years in federal prison … Roberto Solis is still missing. ibid. caption