{"id":890,"date":"2025-12-19T16:03:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:31:00","slug":"south-beach-casino-secuity-chief-firing-tied-to-harassment-complaints-not-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/south-beach-casino-secuity-chief-firing-tied-to-harassment-complaints-not-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"South Beach Casino Secuity Chief Firing Tied to Harassment Complaints, Not Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Casino says security head was fired for harassment, not whistleblowing<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Morin alleges retaliation after raising concerns about drugs on site<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Defense says complaints were investigated, credible, and warranted dismissal<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The former head of security at Manitoba\u2019s South Beach Casino and Resort wasn&#8217;t fired because he blew the whistle on alleged illegal drugs at the property, but because he was accused of sexual harassment, lawyers for the casino have said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_371268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-371268\" data-style=\"width: 858px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-post-thumbnail-858xAUTO wp-image-371268 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"South Beach Casino, Devin Morin, wrongful dismissal, sexual harassment allegations, drug whistleblowing\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/South-Beach-858x483-1.jpg\"><figcaption>The South Beach Casino and Resort near Winnipeg, above. Its former head of security claimed he was fired for airing his concerns about drugs. The casino says it was for sexually harassing coworkers. (Image: South Beach Casino &amp; Resort)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Devin Morin, who worked at the casino for two years until his termination in July 2025, sued the venue, northeast of Winnipeg, for wrongful dismissal earlier this month. He claimed he was fired in retaliation for concerns he raised about drugs being brought into the casino, and even being sold to staff members. He further alleged that one source of the drugs was an individual close to South Beach Casino CEO Timothy Spence.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u2018Threat of Violence\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Morin claimed he was fired shortly after communicating this to Spence, and he was later threatened with violence by the individual he had accused.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>The plaintiff added that &#8220;no investigation was conducted nor were steps taken to prevent the flow of drugs into the casino by that individual identified.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>His dismissal notice stated there had been a complaint against him \u201cregarding unwelcome gestures and contact between yourself and a staff member,&#8221; which made the coworker &#8220;feel uncomfortable in the workplace,&#8221; without elaborating, according to Morin\u2019s lawsuit. He denied acting inappropriately.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement of defense filed this week, the casino\u2019s lawyers called Morin\u2019s suit \u201cfrivolous and vexatious,\u201d and denied retaliation.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Double Harassment<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The latest filing claimed Morin was first accused of sexual harassment by a colleague in January 2025, which led to a written reprimand that Morin acknowledged he had received and understood.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in July 2025, a different employee made a complaint about him, alleging Morin had &#8220;made unwanted sexual advances against her.&#8221; These included pulling her into his office on two occasions, asking her to go to his home, and &#8220;repeatedly and persistently&#8221; approaching with unsolicited gifts, according to the casino\u2019s filing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p>The woman\u2019s complaint was investigated and found to be credible, with security footage from inside the casino partially corroborating the allegations, the filing says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The casino says Morin was informed of its zero-tolerance policy on sexual harassment after the initial incident and was warned that any further misconduct would result in consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The filing says he was fired \u201cwith cause,\u201d and this had been necessary to \u201cprotect other employees of the casino from his conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/south-beach-casino-secuity-chief-firing-tied-to-harassment-complaints-not-drugs\/\">South Beach Casino Secuity Chief Firing Tied to Harassment Complaints, Not Drugs<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\">Casino.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casino says security head was fired for harassment, not whistleblowing Morin alleges retaliation after raising concerns about drugs on site Defense says complaints were investigated, credible, and warranted dismissal The former head of security at Manitoba\u2019s South Beach Casino and Resort wasn&#8217;t fired because he blew the whistle on alleged illegal drugs at the property,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerulepillar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}