Originally Posted by MisterV View Post
OK, how often do gamblers traveling to, from or through Las Vegas get their cash seized by the authorities via civil forfeiture?

Is it common, is it a unicorn, or something between?

Probably little hue and cry about it on national media because it is not happening frequently enough to be newsworthy.
Probably closer to unicorn, but on the other hand, drunk gamblers, maybe having gotten in a fight at a night club....probably more common than you think that they come up missing some money.

This is going to sound conspiratory, but the Vegas media under reports most crimes involving the tourist districts. If you watch the local news or read the papers, you will see lots of reports of different crimes in the residential areas, but few mention of much on the strip or even downtown, unless it is something fairly significant, like a shooting or stabbing. I firmly believe there is an effort to protect our "bread and butter".