WAFB Channel 9, Baton Rouge, LA |Two men wanted in video poker machine theft

Two men wanted in video poker machine theft

VENTRESS, LA (WAFB) - Pointe Coupee Parish detectives are searching for two suspects who broke into a business and stole two video poker machines.

Surveillance tape shows the thieves setting up their Chevy pickup to steal the machines from the Waterloo Exxon and Daiquiris Shop.

The Waterloo is on a corner right by the levee in Ventress, just before where the road heads north for the ferry.

The smaller guy in the video has on a black shirt and walks with a limp.

Detectives say the big guy wears a size 13 boot. He breaks out the glass of the business with ease to gain entry.

Both men wore masks while committing the crime, but it is believed that they are white men.

Just one of the video poker machines weighs 300 pounds. Investigators say when they later found the machines in a field, it took three detectives to pick them up.

The thieves also took the tapes that had a record of how many thousands of dollars were in the machines.

The machines, which were later destroyed with sledge hammers, are valued at $28,000. There was also thousands more in cash inside.