Raiders receiver Javon Walker claims that gunmen appeared at his room at Bellagio, knocked him unconscious, robbed him, and then dragged to him a car and dumped him in the street.
The folks at Bellagio disagree.
“The facts that have been reported regarding the incident involving Javon Walker are incorrect,” a spokesperson from MGM-Mirage, which owns Bellagio, told KVBC-TV in Las Vegas. “I am unable to provide further detail out of respect for the Metro investigation which is currently underway.”
KVBC also reports that Bellagio has more than 2,000 surveillance cameras that operate continuously inside and outside the hotel.
Meanwhile, a reader has shared with us some Vegas talk-radio rumor/speculation regarding the incident. As the rumor/speculation goes, a couple of guys saw Walker spraying Dom Perignon on Saturday night, and then recruited a woman to cozy up to him on Sunday night, and to get him to take her home, or wherever. Once outside, the robbers intervened, knocked Walker out, and took his watch and money.
For more on the situation (and for a little background for those of you who have been laying unconscious in the street for most of the week), here’s a PFTV segment.
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June 19th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Well Javon came up with what he thought was a pretty plausible story… he just happened to be foiled by the few thousand cameras at the resort casino… and let’s be honest here, who could have expected THAT?
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June 19th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
You knew that was coming ….
Javon Walker is going to get exposed. Hookers or drugs … or both.
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June 19th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
“KVBC also reports that Bellagio has more than 2,000 surveillance cameras that operate continuously inside and outside the hotel.”
Amen. If Bellagio wanted to watch you go from the entrance of their hotel to your room, they could easily do it. Walker is a moron for coming up with his story as Bellagio will prove it ain’t true within 30 minutes of reviewing their tape.
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June 19th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
@Shamrock,what! in the world are you talking about!
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June 19th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
I wonder…Do they have cameras in the hotel rooms themselves???
I sure hope not….
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June 19th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Mr. Walker better not have filed that insurance claim yet or the only person who goes to jail based on this incident may be Javon. It would be irony to go to jail for defrauding an insurance company on a claim that you were robbed.
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June 20th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Couldn’t he come up with a better story than that. Hard to believe if you are a investigator in this case. But hey maybe he’s telling the truth(not likely), but it isn’t like casinos and the people who own them are the most honest people in the world. Even though they have OVER 2000 SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS, doesnt mean that they won’t mess with the video tape to save their own asses from being liable.
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June 20th, 2008 at 12:23 am
you can’t fix dumb, can you?
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June 20th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Florio, by all accounts, Brandon Marshall was the guy spraying champagne on people the night Williams was killed. Not Walker. Yes, he was there, but you clearly stated that HE was the one doing the spraying the night Williams was killed. That wasn’t the case from the reports afterwards. You might want to straighten that out.
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June 20th, 2008 at 12:42 am
I just agreed with KY, is that a sign of the apocolypse?
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June 20th, 2008 at 12:49 am
That last paragraph is gold.
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June 20th, 2008 at 1:41 am
Shamrock: “Javon Walker is going to get exposed. Hookers or drugs … or both.”
Basically the same thing was said about Marvin Harrison five weeks ago. I’m still waiting on that dirt.
Maybe these things take time. So much for instant gratification.
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June 20th, 2008 at 2:24 am
not a surprise.
I have been for the ‘hooker explanation’ the whole time.
it has happened to friends of mine that have won small in vegas. any idiot that behaves like walker and thinks walking alone with a girl who is ‘interested’ in him must have a brain the size of a pea.
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June 20th, 2008 at 3:00 am
My guess ?
Javon is gonna be in big time trouble with his girlfriend.
(Hence the need to make something up)
(Not that “I” have ever done anything like that…..okay….maybe once)
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June 20th, 2008 at 3:08 am
I live in Vegas and the hookers are out in swarms in the early morning hours around the night clubs and outside strip clubs. They look for drunk guys with money in their pockets who are walking outside the clubs and coax them into their cars. Then they grab at the guys pockets and demand money. I’m willing to bet that Javon had too much to drink and got into the wrong car.
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June 20th, 2008 at 3:20 am
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June 20th, 2008 at 6:13 am
What do you expect?
He scored a hefty 9 on the Wonderlic.
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June 20th, 2008 at 7:48 am
The Bellagio needs to protect its reputation. Clearly, Jevon wasn’t thinking when he slandered the hotel with his story.
And more clearly, Jevon hasn’t come clean because he has something to hide.
Still waiting for the new story.
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June 20th, 2008 at 8:40 am
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas….
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June 20th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Walker’s handlers and going to come out and say Walker never said anything to The Dirty, and they will come up with a new bullshit story that paints Walker as an innocent victim. I doubt anybody is ever arrested so we will never know what really happened.
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June 20th, 2008 at 9:03 am
This will be the plot for Oceans 14.
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June 20th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Robo769, the police have already said he was robbed and that they have some surveillance video of at least 2 suspects. He was definitely robbed so insurance fraud isn’t an issue here. His claim that he was taken from the hotel is what seems to be false.
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June 20th, 2008 at 9:20 am
haha, Ocean’s 14, starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Al Davis, Brad Pitt, Javon Walker, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon . . .
This time, George and the gang, instead of robbing a Casino, rob a football player!
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June 20th, 2008 at 9:46 am
It could have been worse, this all could have happened in the parking lot of a Bed, Bath & Beyond.
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June 20th, 2008 at 9:48 am
“Robo769, the police have already said he was robbed and that they have some surveillance video of at least 2 suspects. He was definitely robbed so insurance fraud isn’t an issue here. His claim that he was taken from the hotel is what seems to be false.”
If you lie about the circumstances to which you are robbed it is a fraud. Say if Walker was robbed in the matter that someone else described in this thread where he hooked up with a hooker and she lured him into a trap to be robbed, the insurance company would most likely deny the claim since Walker was engaging in illegal activities that led to him being robbed. No insurance company would approve a $100k claim for someone who was robbed by direct result of illegal activities. And yes, although prostitution is legal in some parts of Nevada, it isn’t in Vegas and even if it was it is only legal at licensed brothels (I looked this up, I have no direct knowledge of prostitution in Nevada. No really!).
Also, the police said they had video of a potential suspect’s vehicle. That doesn’t mean they really have anything. Besides, the Bellagio seems to deny that claim anyway.
Who knows what really happened, but if Walker was in the process of solicitation at the time of his robbery and he doesn’t inform that to the insurance company and then those facts come out, Walker is absolutely guilty of insurance fraud and because of the size of his claim he would be in serious danger of legitimate jail time.
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