A lot of people go to Hollywood Casino hoping to win money - but they better not go hoping to find money. If they do, and they keep it, they're breaking the law.

State police say a West Shore man is the most recent arrest for what they call "theft of property lost or mislaid." They say he found an unoccupied slot machine with credits on it and cashed out the credits for a voucher. When he tried to redeem the 46 dollars and 50 cents, they arrested him.

He calls it an honest mistake. They call it a crime.

"If you find something on the floor, if you find credits on a machine, if you find a voucher, find a casino employee and let them know and give that to them," said Trooper Wayne Bates of the Pennsylvania State Police.

Say you see a $20 bill in the casino and pocket it - that's considered theft.

But what does the lunchtime crowd on Harrisburg's restaurant row think about that? To attract interviewees, abc27 dropped a $1 bill. A lot of people never saw it. One woman did, and says she'd probably pocket that casino cash.

"Finding cash and arresting them? I don't understand that," said Mary Sherman of Carlisle.

"I would probably pick it up," said Kristin Benkovic of Steelton. "Keep it? I'm not gonna go and look for somebody and ask them if they lost $20."

"You take it to the lost and found and say, 'Hi, here's a dollar bill I found!'" said Joe Metz of Harrisburg. "What possible claim does anybody else have to that dollar bill that would be superior to yours?"

State police say there have been 55 theft incidents in the six months Hollywood Casino's been open, 13 resulting in arrests. Most of them, they settle on the spot thanks to the multitude of surveillance cameras in the casino.

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