SAN JOSE — An employee at Casino M8trix has been arrested on allegations that she schemed with her husband to methodically embezzle gaming chips from her workplace to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, authorities said.

San Jose police announced the arrests Wednesday in a news release detailing an investigation prompted by a May 23 call, reporting that a woman working at the gaming business off Airport Parkway had been pocketing chips — then handing them off to her husband to cash out.

The investigation — conducted by the San Jose police Division of Gaming Control and Financial Crimes Unit — was prompted by claims that Ellen Mangundayao, 38, of San Jose, had been working with her husband, 41-year-old Mark Mangundayao, to steal chips between May 1 and May 22.

Police say that w

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