In a Las Vegas courtroom on Tuesday, Anthony Carleo, who ripped off the Bellagio for $1.5 million in chips last December, muttered, “I’m very sorry for everything I’ve done. I owe my mother and my father an apology.” According to the Las Vegas Sun, Carleo, dubbed the “Biker Bandit,” will now spend between three and 11 years behind bars. He’s not a one-trick pony either, as Carleo also held up the Suncoast Casino in Las Vegas five days prior to his “Oceans 11” impersonation.

Did we mention that Carleo’s father is Las Vegas Municipal Judge George Assad? According to the Sun, Assad stood by while the sentence was handed down on Tuesday. For the Suncoast robbery, Carleo will learn his fate on Thursday.

According to the same Las Vegas news outlet, “Carleo’s attorney, William Terry, told the court that he would argue for the sentences in both robberies to run concurrently. Terry said Carleo had been the ‘all-American boy’ before getting mixed up in drugs and gambling when he came to Las Vegas to further his education at UNLV.” He was purportedly set to rob the Strip’s Caesars Palace before he was brought into custody.

In the Bellagio heist, which took place on December 14th, Carleo (pictured) entered the casino wearing a motorcycle helmet and pointed a gun at staff at a craps table. The incident, which took place just before 4:00am local time in the luxurious casino, ended with Carleo making off with $1.5 million in chips, including several of the cranberry colored $25,000 ones. Amazingly, the robbery was the 10th at a Las Vegas casino in 2010, up one from 2009.

Carleo was arrested in February, according to the Sun, after undercover police officers arranged to purchase some of the high-dollar chips. Besides the cops on his tail, complicating Carleo’s freedom even further was an announcement from the Bellagio that it would discontinue the $25,000 cranberry chips in April, essentially forcing anyone who held them to cash them in.

The Associated Press quoted one Bellagio spokesperson as frankly stating, “Obviously, anyone walking with one of the old series is going to be subject to a certain amount of questioning as to how they obtained them – assuming it isn’t someone we know. It’s pretty unusual for someone we don’t know to come strolling up with a handful of $25,000 chips.”

On Tuesday, Carleo agreed to a deal that saw him plead guilty to robbery with the use of a deadly weaponand assault with the use of a deadly weapon. The former, according to the Las Vegas Sun, carries a 24 to 84-month sentence, while the latter is 12 to 48 months. Taken together, it means three to 11 years in the slammer.

Carleo’s greed led him to TwoPlusTwo, where he attempted to pawn off the chips under the user name Cranberrykid25for $0.20 on the Dollar. Eventually, according to the Sun, Matthew Brooks, who goes by the screen name Provotrouton TwoPlusTwo, was solicited by Carleo to purchase the stolen Bellagio goods.

In response, Brooks, according to the Sun, “was able to trace Carleo’s computer IP address to a location in Summerlin. He e-mailed Metro Police and the FBI with the information, but with no immediate response, he sent all of the correspondence and information to Bellagio security. Metro called him that night and he gave a statement.”

Despite Carleo getting multiple years behind bars, not everyone was sold that the plea deal was fair. One poster on TwoPlusTwo charged, “The prosecutors dropped 8 other felony charges in a plea deal. I can’t believe this guy only got 3-11 years. I’m sure it has nothing to do with his dad being a former judge. Usually getting popped with an illegal handgun is good enough for at least 5 years prison. He robbed 2 casinos at gunpoint and threatened many people in the process.”

Read the entire Las Vegas Sun story and judge for yourself.