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TAMPA, Fla. – Two suspects are accused of robbing a man they met at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tampa casino robbery investigation <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n The Tampa Police Department said Benjamin Lopez, 37, and Anayaliz Dorsey-Criado, 18, met the victim at the casino on Saturday, August 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n The victim, who police said is a man in his 30s, gave Dorsey-Criado a ride to an apartment complex in the 2800 block of Valentine Court. When they got to the complex, the 18-year-old suspect asked to use the man’s phone as they got out of the car.\u00a0<\/p>\n However, Lopez was waiting for him near the stairwell with a gun pointed at him, and demanded money, TPD said. Lopez and Dorsey-Criado took off with the man’s money and phone.<\/p>\n Tampa police victim identification <\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Investigators have not released the identity of the victim involved in the armed robbery. Officials have also not said how much money was stolen during the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n Casino surveillance evidence <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Detectives said they found video that showed both suspects with the victim at the casino.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It\u2019s terrible the victim was taken advantage of in this way,” said Acting Tampa Police Chief Brett Owen. “Detectives were relentless in their efforts to identify the suspects involved and hold them accountable.”<\/p>\n Suspects charges <\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Officials said Lopez was arrested on multiple charges, including robbery with a firearm, felon in possession of a firearm and grand theft. Dorsey-Criado was arrested for robbery with a firearm and grand theft, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: The information in this story was gathered from the Tampa Police Department, who provided details on the arrests and investigation.<\/p>\n Tampa<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Mughsots courtesy of the Tampa Police Department.\u00a0 TAMPA, Fla. – Two suspects are accused of robbing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-367631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}