The judge gave the order to shut down cell service in Vegas.

Roberts was concerned that it would not be enough, that the casinos should also be evacuated. But it didn’t matter what Roberts thought, because the FBI and ATF came in and completely took over the operation.

And they took a rather aggressive approach, detaining everyone who could possibly be involved. Included in that were Dominic Romano and three of his soldiers, two of whom were the men who helped him get rid of Salvatore Tartaro. One of them has already confessed to being part of his murder.

Also detained was Daniel Lewinsky’s counterpart at Harriman Hospital, Louis Aldridge, and not surprisingly, he was the one to crack under the pressure. Aldridge confirmed an operation similar to the one at Bergen, and was also able to identify Lucky Linda’s Casino as the target.

Aldridge’s statement was more than enough to get Dominic Romano arrested, and no doubt will help lead to his conviction. Both of them are going down, though Romano has further to fall. If Aldridge is lucky, he and Romano won’t wind up sharing a cell.

The FBI and Vegas cops caught an incredible break when the guy tasked with delivering the device to Lucky Linda’s went ahead and did so. He had heard about the cell phone outage, but assumed it was temporary. He couldn’t get Romano on the phone to possibly get different instructions, because, of course, his cell phone didn’t work.

So he went ahead and left the package, thinking he could always go back and get it, as he had done in the rehearsals. He wound up running into eleven waiting FBI agents, a confrontation which did not go well for him. The device was retrieved and disabled.

Roberts called me when it was over, and thanked me. “Great work,” he said. “When word about what you did gets out, they’ll comp you the Presidential Suite at the Excalibur.”