A longtime Aria casino patron is suing after he woke up in handcuffs and was accused of incurring a $75,000 gambling debt he doesn’t recall, Dextero reports.
In the civil complaint reviewed by Complex, Michael Thomson, a resident of Puerto Rico, claims that he was playing blackjack in the high-limit room at Aria in Las Vegas on the night of January 23, 2024.
He claims to remember taking out one $10,000 marker and paying it back that same night. Around midnight, he says he left the room with a few thousand dollars in chips and headed toward his hotel room inside the casino.
The next thing he remembers is waking up the following morning handcuffed to a wall in a casino security holding room.
Casino staff allegedly told him that security…