UPDATE UPDATE: The suspect has been released. Apparently German coppers got the wrong guy … or are running a high-level police play where they detain a person and let him go hoping he will lead them to someone else. No word on whether or not they are still looking for a black Mercedes somewhere in Germany.
Police have arrested a man in connection with last weekend\’s armed robbery at the Grand Hyatt during EPT Berlin:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35849559/ns/world_news-europe/
Few details on the suspect himself, other than that his arrest has something to do with info police received about a black Mercedes getaway car … and that he may have been a guy convicted and sent to prison for a casino robbery in 2004.
The thugs made off with $331,000 in the daytime heist, pulled off as cameras rolled at the biggest poker tournament in German history.
Supposedly, we\’re also hearing, the robbers left behind a lot of clues, and more arrests are likely to follow. Police don\’t think it was an inside job, but are looking into whether or not there was an accomplice who entered one of the events.
UPDATE: A little more news from Germany … the heist took place while guards were on break and the money was being prepared for transfer to the casino\’s main cage. Also, from TheLocal.de:
The arrested man was thought to have taken part in another high-profile robbery in 2004. That January four armed masked men stormed the casino at the top of the Park Inn on Alexanderplatz in central Berlin. They were later arrested and convicted, receiving jail terms of between two and four years.