Storming Las Vegas
How a CubanBorn, SovietTrained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five WorldClass Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars

Immediately gripping and thoroughly harrowing, Storming Las Vegas tells the story of a remarkable truelife crime spreea story that was previously squashed so as not to disturb tourism, in the ultimate proof of what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. On September 20, 1998, a Cubanborn former Red Army lieutenant named Jose Vigoa launched a series of raids on the Las Vegas Strip. During a sixteenmonth spree, Vigoa hit five worldclass hotels, three armored cars, and one department store. The casinos were: the MGM; the Desert Inn; the New York, New York; the Mandalay Bay and the Bellagio. Lieutenant John Alamshaw, a twentythreeyearold veteran in charge of robbery detectives, was ordered to stop the robberies at all costs. He knew he was up against a mastermind. What he didnt know was that he was running out of time.