When one thinks of home poker game robberies, one usually thinks of some underground game in a sketchy part of the city or a rival gang hitting a mafia game. That wasn’t at all the case late at night on Easter Sunday, when a regular neighborhood game was hit by armed robbers in Sayville, Suffolk… Read more »
Poker chips went missing Efforts to prosecute an East L.A. deputy over allegedly stealing hundreds of dollars from a professional poker player have ended after the victim stopped communicating with police out of fear of retaliation from “deputy gangs” within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. According to an August memo from the District Attorney’s… Read more »
A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer who allegedly robbed three casinos made his first appearance in federal court Friday, this according to the U.S. Department of Justice. 33-year-old Caleb Rogers was arrested on February 27, accused of stealing around $164,000 in total from the trio of locations. According to a grand jury indictment on March… Read more »
Episode 11 of the seventh season of Seinfeld was “The Rye.” While it also brought the fictional Beef-A-Reeno into our lexicon, its main plot revolved around the need to acquire a loaf of marble rye in order to avoid a potential lifetime of strife between George’s parents and his fiancée Susan’s parents. Jerry attempted to… Read more »
The crime I always enjoy a good “stupid criminal” story as long as nobody got hurt. Now, in this case, I do feel bad because the victim, while not harmed physically, was certainly harmed financially, but solely from an entertainment perspective, this is just a face-palmer. Recently, an Arizona woman was arrested for allegedly stealing… Read more »
Last Thursday night, the wee morning hours of June 11, a man robbed the main cage of the newly-reopened New York-New York casino on the Las Vegas Strip. He was apprehended less than two hours later, but until Monday, not much was known about what happened except that nobody was injured. Las Vegas police have… Read more »
The heist A man who robbed the home of the World Series of Poker in 2011 has been arrested by the FBI’s L.A. Fugitive Task Force. FBI Los Angeles tweeted the news on Monday, saying that Steven Gao is now awaiting extradition to Las Vegas. Gao was a problem gambler and owed his friend Edward… Read more »
Details emerge from December robbery This past December, two men who had just had good nights at the MGM National Harbor casino in Oxon Hill, Maryland, were robbed when they arrived home. The public didn’t know much else about the incident, but through a search warrant, Prince William County police have revealed that serious violence… Read more »
Happy New Year, everybody! If you’re like me, you don’t make New Year’s resolutions. Instead, you enroll at Orangetheory Fitness and then “don’t have time” or “forget” or “aren’t feeling well enough” to go by January 17th. And I am sure glad I didn’t make any resolutions, as one of them would have been, “Write… Read more »
Kansas City-area man Oscar Glover was arrested near Tulsa, Oklahoma last week after he was on the run for almost a month. Glover allegedly followed a poker player home from Harrah’s North Kansas City Casino on July 1 and robbed him at gunpoint. According to a WDAF-TV Kansas City news report, casino security footage shows… Read more »
