A 43-year-old man from Mexico has been charged with theft from the Four Winds Casino in Hartford.

The casino received a call in July of last year, with the caller falsely claiming that he was the tribal chairperson and needed funds to make an urgent payment.

While on the phone, the cell phone assigned to the cage at the casino started getting texts from a person claiming to be the Hartford casino cage director who was out of town at the time.

The texts told the employee that he needed her to help make an urgent payment within the next 20 minutes and said to follow the instructions of the caller.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said a casino employee gathered $700,000 in cash and took the cash from the casino to a gas station in Gary.

With the help of the Pokagon Tribal Police and the FBI, and after a month-long investigation, authorities identified Jesus Gaytan-Garcia as one of the people the casino employee met at the gas station and gave the money to.

Authorities say Gaytan-Garcia has no legal authorization to be in the United States.