Police: Las Vegas steakhouse theft suspect spent big on crypto, casinos

A Las Vegas steakhouse manager accused of stealing nearly $1 million from the business did so by impersonating the steakhouse’s owner, then allocated huge sums of cash to gambling at Las Vegas Valley casinos as well as cryptocurrency investments, police said.

Fei Yang, 38, was arrested April 15 on suspicion of theft more than $100,000 from Ohjah Japanese Steakhouse.

A detective wrote in a Metropolitan Police Department arrest report that Yang diverted money from the restaurant chain’s Uber Eats and DoorDash accounts into his personal bank accounts, causing a loss of $924,649 to Ohjah.

Yang, police said, was able to divert the money through his position as a manager. Yang was hired as a waiter by Ohjah in 2015, then promoted to manager of the chain’s restaurant on Oso Blanco Drive near North Durango Drive and West Elkhorn Road.

He made $5,200 a month, police said, and was given authorization to hire and schedule workers, modify employee payroll information, submit payroll, authorize contracts to delivery companies, submit documents to delivery companies and access a delivery company portal to make needed changes.

This access, police said, allowed him to manipulate payments made by Uber Eats and DoorDash.

“Suspect goes into UberEATS Portal website acting as the owner of Ohjah Japanese Steakhouse requesting Uber customer service chat to change the deposit banking information to Yang’s personal bank account number,” police said.

The owner of Ohjah is identified in police records as a Zhigang Wang.

Police said the payments were diverted from January 2022 to October 2025. Yang, police said, then circulated sizeable sums of money to and from his personal bank accounts.

Cumulatively, police said they identified casino withdrawals from four of Yang’s accounts totaling $604,911. The majority of these were made at Red Rock Casino and Rampart Casino, with $309,346 made at Red Rock and $159,060 made at Rampart. Investments and crypto transfers totaled $561,161, with $127,900 to Coinbase, $173,718 to Crypto.com, $119,843 to Robinhood, and $106,700 to Webull Financial.

“Yang appears to be concealing embezzled funds via transfers (online and Zelle) and excessive gaming activity,” police said.

Las Vegas Justice Court records do not list a defense attorney for Yang. His next court appearance is scheduled for May 13 for a status check on the filing of a criminal complaint.

District Court records also show Yang and his wife, Jian Zhang, were sued by Ohjah in December. Ohjah’s civil attorney, Jeffrey Ian Shaner, wrote in a civil filing that Yang “surreptitiously set up two accounts for each restaurant location such that funds in approximately half of the accounts were delivered to Ohjah plaintiffs while the other funds were diverted to accounts controlled by Fei Yang.”

In the civil case Yang and Zhang are represented by Las Vegas attorney Chandon Alexander.

Alexander said he is not representing Yang in his criminal case. In the civil case, Alexander filed a motion in March seeking dismissal of the suit against Yang and his wife.

“The claims against Ms. Zhang are based entirely on the conclusory assertion that she benefited from converted funds ‘through her marital community’ with Mr. Yang, without a single factual allegation of her personal involvement,” Alexander wrote.

Alexander also wrote that the civil suit should be dismissed for what Alexander contends are deficiences in the original civil complaint.

Yang’s last day of work for Ohjah was in September 2025, police said. A police report lists China as his citizenship.