LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man arrested after a police chase and crash may be responsible for several area robberies, including a weekend heist in which shots were fired inside a North Las Vegas casino, authorities said Tuesday.

Though they downplayed the possibility, police also were checking with investigators in Tinley Park, Ill., about whether Enrique J. Hurtado, 34, might be the gunman responsible for a botched robbery and shooting that left five women dead and one wounded in a suburban Chicago shopping center.

The FBI said Hurtado faces federal charges stemming from the Monday robbery of a credit union several miles from where the crash occurred, and has been identified as a suspect in at least one other bank robbery and five convenience store heists.

"This guy is brazen," Mark Hoyt, North Las Vegas police spokesman.

Tinley Park Police Chief Michael O'Connell called Hurtado just one of many leads. He noted that the sole survivor of the Tinley Park attack described the gunman as a black male, while Hurtado is Hispanic.

Las Vegas police downplayed a possible connection with the Illinois case, and Hoyt called any link "a long shot."

FBI Special Agent Joseph Dickey said later Tuesday that federal authorities had no reason to believe Hurtado was associated with the Tinley Park case.

But Hoyt said police received viewer calls about a resemblance between the man seen in a surveillance photo released by North Las Vegas police after the Saturday casino robbery and a composite sketch of the gunman in the Lane Bryant clothing store slayings in Tinsley Park.

Hurtado was pulled from an overturned car and hospitalized after the Monday morning wreck east of downtown Las Vegas. Authorities said Hurtado was treated for crash-related injuries and transferred to the Clark County jail, where he was being held Tuesday on multiple charges including robbery, armed robbery, kidnapping and burglary.

He was due for an initial appearance Wednesday in a Las Vegas court.

Hoyt said Hurtado probably would face charges of armed robbery and attempted murder in the 4:45 p.m. Saturday robbery of the Opera House Saloon & Casino. A casino cashier escaped injury by ducking behind a counter while the robber fired at least two shots, police said.

The man escaped in a white four-door vehicle with California license plates similar to the white 1995 Cadillac with California plates that flipped over and crashed about 10:45 a.m. Monday after police deployed spike strips to end a high-speed police chase following the credit union robbery.

Investigators were trying to match a baseball cap and a fingerprint left at the casino robbery scene to Hurtado, Hoyt said.