The man who allegedly used a BB gun to brazenly rob a cashier at the Bellagioin Las Vegas last weekend has been apprehended and charged with a myriad of offenses.

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Scott Carmitchel (pictured), 34, appeared in court on Tuesday with a spit mask on his head and a blanket covering his body. He was charged with one count of interference with commerce by robbery at the Bellagio and one count of armed bank robbery at the City National Bank on East Tropicana Avenue. Carmitchel didn’t speak a word and kept his eyes shut throughout the entire hearing.

Authorities say the 34-year-old walked up to the cashier’s cage of the Bellagio at 8:30pm on Friday, pulled an orange-tipped gun out of his backpack, and demanded cash from a female employee. The woman handed over $43,500 to the suspect, who promptly fled the scene.

Detectives were led to Carmitchel when a tourist told police that the man had offered him $300 to rent a room for him at the Hard Rock Hotel. Investigators set up surveillance on the room and were able to detain and question four prostitutes who left the suite.

They said that they had been hired to “socialize” with the man and carried wads of cash, some of which were labeled “Bellagio Count Team.” They also said the man had taken them on a shopping spree at the Forum Shops in Caesars and had been acting erratically. One described the suspect as “an average to unfortunate looking white male with an athletic build.” The women were arrested and charged with trespassing.

Authorities later entered the room and found the clothing the assailant had worn during the robbery, a BB gun, $10,000 cash, Louis Vuitton shoes, and other luxury clothing items. Carmitchel claimed the women were simply workout buddies and that he had found a bag of money in the Bellagio parking lot. When confronted with a picture of the suspect from a surveillance camera, the man said it was him, but denied taking part in the robbery. “I was smoking too much I guess,” he told detectives.

From the evidence found at the hotel room, police were also able to link Carmitchel to a bank robbery that had taken place just three days earlier. Security footage showed that a man wearing the same outfit as the Bellagio suspect and donning the same orange-tipped BB gun entered a branch of the City National Bank demanding money. “I want you to put all your money in this backpack,” he allegedly told a cashier, who handed over $4,355.

This isn’t Carmitchel’s first brush with the law. The 34-year-old is a Kansas Department of Corrections parolee who served time for battery against a law enforcement officer in 1998. Last year, he was also convicted of making a criminal threat in the state.

Authorities initially suspected Jesse Jones, a 6’2″, 250-pound man with the words “white pride” tattooed under his eyebrows. They apprehended Jones due to the fact that his fingerprints were found at the scene of another bank robbery that took place in June. The man is no longer a suspect in the Bellagio incident, but remains a person of interest in the June heist.

Carmitchel’s public defender, Mike Wilfong, has stated that he would need a social worker to help with his combative client while he prepares his defense.

Carmitchel is scheduled to appear in court again on Thursday morning to face two counts of battery against a protected person. “I have not had any conversations with the US Attorney’s Office about them taking the lead or us taking the lead,” Wolfson told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “We filed charges. We’re proceeding towards a preliminary hearing date.”

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