A man has been jailed on federal charges in a theft of more than $190,000 from Wind Creek Casino and Hotel in Montgomery last week, according to federal court records. 
 
 Timothy Dean Pettiway was arrested and charged with theft from gaming establishments on Indian lands on Tuesday, federal court records show. 
 
 Wind Creek is operated by the Poard Band of Creek Indians. The tribe operates three Wind Creek locations in Alabama including Montgomery, Atmore and Wetumpka. 
 
 An FBI agent wrote in a federal court affidavit that $192,800 was missing from two customer kiosks at the casino. 
 
 Court documents say surveillance video from Aug. 10 shows a casino employee left keys on top of a kiosk machine that had been malfunctioning. Later, the video showed Pettiway kneeling in front of the kiosk and holding what appeared to be a money cassette. 
 
 Casino personnel later found the money cassettes in the handicap stall of the men's restroom, which was near the kiosks. 
 
 The case remains under investigation by the FBI. 
 
 Another man was also arrested and charged in the case, but the Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss the subject from the complaint, federal court records show. ||||| CLOSE Wind Creek Montgomery Hotel Opens on Monday Dec. 21, 2015. 
 
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 Federal prosecutors have arrested two men, including a former employee, for allegedly stealing $192,800 from Wind Creek Montgomery casino last week after an employee left keys on top of a gaming kiosk. 
 
 The former employee Jory D'Michael Travunn Dumas and Timothy Dean Pettiway were arrested Tuesday and are both charged with theft from a gaming establishment on Indian lands for the Aug. 10 heist, according to federal court documents. 
 
 The cash was stolen from two kiosks, or cash machines, after a casino employee checked out the keys and left them atop a kiosk. 
 
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 Dumas, Pettiway's nephew, was dismissed from the case Friday after prosecutors said the initial investigation had incorrectly identified him as the one who picked up the keys from the kiosk. 
 
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 An FBI review of Wind Creek's security footage found that Pettiway was the one to take the keys. 
 
 But U.S. Magistrate Judge Gray Borden on Friday advised Dumas that though his charge had been dismissed, the prosecution could still present charges against him to a future grand jury. 
 
 Court documents allege casino employee Courtney Stanton checked out keys to kiosks 8 and 19, while surveillance footage showed her leaving the keys on top of a machine and walking away before Pettiway retrieved the keys. 
 
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 Footage in court Friday showed a man alleged to be Pettiway taking one cash box from kiosk 19. While the kiosk houses multiple cash boxes with bills of different denominations, court testimony revealed, Pettiway allegedly removed the box of $100 bills. 
 
 Pettiway then took the box into a restroom Dumas was known to be in. Pettiway later exited, walked to kiosk 8, and repeated the procedure. 
 
 Around the same time, another casino employee noticed Machine 8 wasn't working properly. Stanton told tribal police she reported her keys missing to her supervisor and notified security. 
 
 Casino security entered the restroom to find empty cash boxes in the handicapped stall from machines 8 and 19. 
 
 "Financial records obtained from the Casino reflect $100,800 in $100 bill denominations are unaccounted for from the dispenser cassette assigned to Kiosk machine #8 and $92,000 in $100 bill denominations are unaccounted for from the dispenser cassette assigned to Kiosk machine #19," court documents state. 
 
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 A federal judge on Friday dismissed charges against one person and denied bond to a second accused of robbing nearly $200,000 in cash from the Wind Creek Montgomery casino last week. 
 
 Jory D'Michael Travunn Dumas and Timothy Dean Pettiway were arrested Tuesday after allegedly stealing the cash from two machines they accessed with keys an employee left atop a kiosk on Aug. 10. The case is being adjudicated in federal court as the theft occurred on Indian lands. 
 
 Dumas, Pettiway's nephew and a former Wind Creek casino employee who investigators say was fired for theft last year, was dismissed from the case Friday. 
 
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 Investigators said the initial probe last week had incorrectly identified him as the one who picked up the keys from the kiosk. An FBI review of Wind Creek's security footage found that Pettiway took the keys. 
 
 But U.S. Magistrate Judge Gray Borden on Friday advised Dumas that though his charge had been dismissed, the prosecution could still present charges against him to a future grand jury. 
 
 The U.S. Attorney's Office offered video surveillance footage from multiple casino cameras to establish probable cause against Pettiway. 
 
 FBI Special Agent Matthew Minshew testified Friday that casino employee Courtney Stanton, a kiosk attendant, checked out keys to kiosks 8 and 19. 
 
 In the security footage, Stanton accesses kiosk 19, and appears to speak to someone off-camera for some time. She then walks away from the kiosk, leaving her keys on top of the machine. 
 
 In court, Minshew identified a man as Pettiway retrieving the keys. Minshew testified Pettiway was wearing black clothes, similar to the uniform kiosk attendants wear. 
 
 Footage in court Friday showed a man alleged to be Pettiway taking one cash box from kiosk 19. While the kiosk houses multiple cash boxes with bills of different denominations, court testimony revealed, Pettiway allegedly removed the box of $100 bills. 
 
 Pettiway then took the box into a restroom Dumas was known to be in. Pettiway later exited, walked to kiosk 8, and repeated the procedure. 
 
 Pettiway was filmed exiting the casino shortly after, less than 15 minutes after Stanton initially accessed the kiosk, according to security footage. 
 
 Around the same time, another casino employee noticed machine 8 wasn't working properly. Stanton told tribal police she reported her keys missing to her supervisor and notified security. Casino security entered the restroom to find empty cash boxes in the handicapped stall from machines 8 and 19. 
 
 The casino declined to make a statement and directed questions to FBI investigators. 
 
 Cecilia Vaca, Pettiway's attorney, argued in court Friday that charging Pettiway over Dumas amounted to a "coin flip." 
 
 "Mr. Dumas worked at the casino, Mr. Dumas was fired from the casino for theft, and Mr. Dumas was intimately familiar with how the machines worked," Vaca said. 
 
 A number of Pettiway's family attended the hearing and his girlfriend, Natasha Walker, testified to his responsibility for a 9-year-old son and two nephews who live full-time with Pettiway. 
 
 "It's not often you have so many family members here," Vaca said in arguing for bond. "He has a 9-year-old son, he has a responsibility to care for him, and he's not going to flee the jurisdiction." 
 
 But Borden found Pettiway's "substantial" criminal history, spanning decades, and the fact that the heist money has not been found to be compelling cause to deny bond. 
 
 "The cash has not been recovered. A person with access to that much cash would have a reasonable opportunity to flee," Borden said. 
 
 The Poarch Band of Creek Indians Nation on Friday declined to make a statement about the heist, and referred questions to the FBI. 
 
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– Misplaced keys usually don't result in federal charges, but that was apparently the case in Alabama. The Montgomery Advertiser reports Timothy Dean Pettiway has been charged with theft from a gaming establishment on Indian lands after allegedly stealing $192,800 from Wind Creek Montgomery casino on Aug. 10. Federal prosecutors allege an employee left keys to two kiosks on top of a machine and that Pettiway retrieved them and used them to remove the box of $100 bills from kiosks 8 and 19. He allegedly took the boxes one at a time into a bathroom that his nephew, Jory D'Michael Travunn Dumas, was in; the emptied cash boxes were later found in a stall. Dumas, a former casino employee who had been fired for theft, was also arrested Tuesday, but he was dismissed from the case Friday after prosecutors said they mistakenly identified him as the one who had collected the keys. He has been advised that he's not immune from future charges. Pettiway was on Friday denied bond, with the judge citing his decades-long criminal history and the fact that the $192,800 remains missing. "A person with access to that much cash would have a reasonable opportunity to flee," said US Magistrate Judge Gray Borden, per the Advertiser. AL.com reports the Poarch Band of Creek Indians runs three Wind Creek casino locations in Alabama, including the one that was hit. (A top gambler lost out on $10.2 million after a court ruled he cheated.)