A former trucker in Las Vegas might be going to federal prison because he was extorting money from the casinos there. Apparently he’d gotten his hands on some customer information that was considered to be confidential. He was willing to return it, but it was going to cost the casino hundreds of thousands of dollars to get it back. He could be fined up to one million dollars and face up to fifty years in prison if he’s convicted.

The man got the information from a load of scrap paper that he hauled for the casino, but he told the casino that he’d gotten it through their computer system and claimed to be a hacker. He also said that he planned to sell the information to other, competing casinos.

The documents that were hauled away by the trucker were supposed to have been shredded before they were loaded, but someone dropped the ball and didn’t do it. None of the customer information was made public, however, and the trucker was caught on film and arrested without further incident.