EL MONTE - Detectives arrested a man and his wife Thursday night on suspicion they built illegal gambling machines and placed the games in businesses all over the San Gabriel Valley. Osama Mousa, 48, of Long Beach and his wife Carmen Mousa, 55, were arrested around 5 p.m. on suspicion of grand theft, possession of controlled slot machines and conspiracy, said Detective Ralph Batres of the El Monte Police Department.
EL MONTE - Detectives arrested a man and his wife Thursday night on suspicion they built illegal gambling machines and placed the games in businesses all over the San Gabriel Valley. Osama Mousa, 48, of Long Beach and his wife, Carmen Mousa, 55, were arrested around 5 p.m. on suspicion of grand theft, possession of controlled slot machines and conspiracy, said Detective Ralph Batres of the El Monte Police Department.
EL MONTE - Police seized seven illegal gambling machines at four businesses Tuesday after they received an anonymous complaint from a resident, authorities said. The machines were disguised as video games, Detective Ralph Batres of the El Monte police said.
In poker parlance, Westmoreland County attorney Larry Burns is dead money. A jury deliberated just over two hours before finding Burns, 65, of Derry guilty of 12 misdemeanor counts of organizing and operating illegal gambling by holding Texas Hold 'Em tournaments in Adamsburg and Seward in 2007.
MILLCREEK -- The owner of an Internet cafe who entered a guilty plea just eight months ago to running an illegal gambling operation has been charged with doing exactly the same thing again. Only this time, William Homan is facing a felony racketeering charge.
Two Trafford bar owners on Tuesday pleaded guilty to gambling charges for illegal video poker machines in their businesses that paid out winnings to customers. Renee Parente Cappetta, 53, of Irwin, owner of Parente's Ristorante and the Old Trafford Sports Club, and Susan M. Plassio, 55, of Penn Hills, who owns the Seldom Inn, received no jail time or probation term under a plea bargain.
More than four years ago, the U.S. Congress passed bipartisan legislation to curb the growing problem of illegal gambling by updating current laws to require banks to block illegal Internet gambling transactions. While gambling is currently illegal in the United States unless regulated by the states, the development of the Internet has made gambling easily accessible. It is common for illegal gambling businesses to boldly operate until law enforcement finds and stops them. This has turned state laws against gambling on their heads. Congressional efforts have been largely focused on protecting the rights of states to create and enforce their own gambling laws within their borders. Different states have different approaches to gambling, and Congress should honor those laws and re...
The gambling ring had allegedly used a network of agents to take in more than $22 million in bets in college and professional football and basketball since March 2006. State law enforcement officials last week broke up an illegal sports gambling ring that had operated out of a poker room inside Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino and charged the leader and 22 other participants, according to the Office of the Attorney General.
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