LAS VEGAS, Nevada: Following two incidents involving security officers who assaulted a patron and a resort employee nearly two years ago, Nevada gambling regulators fined a hotel-casino, the Don Laughlin’s Riverside Resort, a record $500,000 in a settlement with the state Gaming Control Board.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported last week that the Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously approved the settlement with the Laughlin-based establishment, which fired four of the security officers and reassigned the fifth following the separate incidents in 2022.

The commission said the fine was the highest ever assessed for incidents of their kind.

The report is located some 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Las Vegas, along the Colorado River, which borders Arizona.

One incident involved a customer who refused to leave a slot machine area during an accounting check, while the other involved an unidentified Riverside employee who was falsely accused of smoking marijuana at work.

The newspaper reported that in both incidents, people were injured by the security guards, with the casino patron being thrown to the ground and suffering a leg injury.

Riverside officials said a review committee was established months after the incidents to address related issues and prevent similar actions from happening again.

During the hearing, Riverside Chief Operating Officer Matthew Laughlin said that different security guards were involved in the two incidents, and they failed to follow resort policy.

He added that the company did not assess the guards’ personalities involved in the incidents before hiring them.

“Instead of defusing the situation, they took it to the next level,” Laughlin said.