Las Vegas- Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Bill Jansen has signed a warrant for the arrest of “Girls Gone Wild” mogul Joe Francis stemming from his $2 million gambling debt at Wynn Las Vegas.
As of late Friday, Francis had not been taken into custody, Chief Deputy District Attorney Bernie Zadrowski said.
Zadrowski’s bad check unit is prosecuting Francis on charges of theft and writing a fraudulent check.
Francis contends he owes the Wynn considerably less than $2 million and that his bank account held plenty of cash when he wrote a $2.5 million check to the Strip resort in February 2007 to obtain gambling markers.
He provided the Sun with records that he says show the account wasn’t closed by the bank until May 2007 and Wynn didn’t attempt to deposit the check until this April, about 14 months after he had written the check.