KERN COUNTY, Calif. (KERO) — A Kern County jury found a man guilty on Tuesday of several charges including first-degree murder and attempted murder in a 2017 deadly shooting at Golden West Casino. Keon Brackenridge was found guilty of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, shooting at an occupied building, assault with a firearm, possession of […]
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American Canyon Police are investigating a reported robbery at gunpoint of roughly $3,000 that happened early Friday morning in the Napa Valley Casino parking lot. According to police, the robbery happened after a person who’d been inside the casino walked outside, into the parking lot, to count his money. He was then reportedly robbed at […]
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The man who was shot and killed this week at Sacramento, Calif.’s Capitol Casino was a security guard for the cardroom, according to reports. The guard was identified as Sean Bernal, 27. He is survived by a one-year-old daughter and several siblings. Bernal was shot during a robbery attempt Monday at the casino. He apparently intervened to […]
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Two suspects have been arrested in connection with a carjacking at the San Pablo Lytton Casino earlier this month, according to the San Pablo Police Department. Early in the morning on Wednesday, Aug. 10, two men in ski masks approached a victim sleeping in a car and pulled a gun on him, police said. They […]
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A man who confronted an armed robber at Sacramento, Calif.’s Capitol Casino early Monday was shot dead by the gunman. The suspect was attempting to rob the cardroom prior to the shooting, initial news reports said. After wounding the victim, the suspect continued to discharge his firearm. At about 6 am, Sacramento police officers arrived at […]
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One armored truck guard was shot and injured Thursday morning during a brazen holdup outside Larry Flynt’s Hustler Casino in Gardena, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles. He was in critical condition at a local hospital, but is expected to survive, local TV stations reported. A second guard had less serious injuries. The guards were […]
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An awkward and nasty fight recently broke out at a poker room in California. A video has emerged on Reddit that shows two players going at it at the Hustler Casino’s poker room. It is unclear what happened leading up to when the video starts, but it kicks off with a tense argument involving two […]
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The man who died had already been kicked out of the Seven Mile Casino on Monday prior to returning and scuffling with security, according to police in South Bay Authorities Tuesday publicly identified a 46-year- old man who died of unknown causes following a fight with security guards who ejected him from a Chula Vista […]
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A California casino agreed to pay $500,000 for not alerting federal authorities about a “high roller” who brought in millions in cash to use in games of baccarat. Federal regulators believe the casino violated anti-money laundering provisions in the Bank Secrecy Act, according to a statement from the Department of Justice last week. They left […]
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Friday filed a complaint with the state’s Gambling Control Commission against The Bicycle Hotel and Casino. That’s after the federal government fined the Bell Garden cardroom $500,000 for violating a law to stop money laundering. Earlier that same day, the US Attorney for California’s Central District said The Bicycle […]
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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The operators of the Bicycle Hotel & Casino in Bell Gardens will pay $500,000 to settle violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. The casino accepted responsibility for failing to properly file reports for a Chinese national who conducted millions of dollars in cash transactions back […]
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles-area casino will pay $500,000 to settle allegations that it violated anti-money laundering laws by failing to properly file reports about a Chinese player who spent millions in cash, authorities announced Friday. The Bicycle Hotel & Casino in Bell Gardens agreed to pay the revenue it made from the […]
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Sacramento police said the shooting happened near the 400 block of North 16th Street near Capitol Casino. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Police are investigating after a woman was shot outside of a cardroom just outside of downtown Sacramento. Sacramento Police said the shooting happened near the 400 block of North 16th Street near Capitol Casino. Authorities say […]
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SACRAMENTO— One of California’s more profitable card rooms agreed Thursday to a record $5.3 million penalty for misleading gambling regulators and violating a federal law designed to deter money laundering, the state attorney general’s office said. Artichoke Joe’s Casino in San Bruno, south of San Francisco, failed to properly report an investigation by the federal […]
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“'This indictment describes a massive operation that laundered millions of dollars in illicit proceeds,’ said U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy.”
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MODESTO, Calif. — Deputies are investigating a shooting at a Modesto poker room Thursday night that left a man dead, the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department said. The shooting happened in the parking lot of the Empire Sportsmen’s Club, near McHenry and Kiernan avenues. Deputies have identified the man as Alexander Wever of Ripon.
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The Gardens Casino, a card room that underpins the one-square-mile city of Hawaiian Gardens, has agreed to pay $3.15 million to settle allegations brought by the California attorney general’s office that the casino’s operators made no mention of a federal probe and resultant $2.8-million penalty when applying to renew its license. California Atty. Gen. Xavier […]
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DELANO, Calif. — On Friday, the Kern County District Attorney’s Office announced an indictment in the 2014 deadly shooting of a man outside of the Aviator Casino in Delano. Officials charged 31-year-old Carlos Reveles with first-degree murder of 47-year-old David Medina. Officials said the deadly shooting happened after an alleged fight in the parking lot of the […]
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One of the robbers put a gun to the head of the wife and demanded her money, prosecutors report. Three Vallejo residents are in custody after allegedly following a couple from a casino in San Pablo and then robbing them at gunpoint in South San Francisco last weekend, prosecutors said Thursday. James Brisker IV, 26, […]
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CHP is continuing to investigate a shooting near Bay 101 Casino. The casino is right off Highway 101 and Airport Parkway near the San Jose International Airport. Police say the car-to-car shooting happened Tuesday night around 11 p.m. on or near the highway on Brokaw Road. Police say the victim was able to drive to […]
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The owner of a San Diego card room and casino was sentenced Monday to three years behind bars for running a racketeering ring out of his business, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Sanders Bruce Segal, 66, was sentenced to 37 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $222,000 in revenue he gained through […]
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A 42-year-old San Francisco man was sentenced Thursday to 10 months in jail and three years of supervised probation after punching a security guard in the nose outside a San Bruno casino in 2013, San Mateo County prosecutors said. District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said his office asked for three years in state prison for Pornchai […]
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation suspected two San Diego card club room operators of trying to bribe San Diego politicians to help save their business, according to affidavits revealed in a federal court case. In the 2015 documents, an FBI agent asked a judge for permission to continue a wire-tap and to monitor electronic communications […]
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A man who was shot multiple times after leaving Larry Flynt’s Lucky Lady Casino in Gardena said he is still in awe he’s alive. “I’m scared every minute now,” the victim, who wished to remain unidentified as his assailants have not been apprehended, told KTLA on Monday. He was driving away from the casino on June […]
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A man who was leaving Larry Flynt’s Lucky Lady Casino in Gardena with his winnings was shot four times during a robbery at a gas station early Wednesday morning, police said. Los Angeles police were the first to respond to the shooting call about 4:30 a.m. at Rosecrans and Vermont avenues in the Harbor Gateway […]
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The Sacramento Police Department is investigating a shooting that injured two people early Tuesday outside a south Sacramento casino. Officer Matthew McPhail, a department spokesman, said about 12:41 a.m., employees at Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center alerted Sacramento police that two unidentified shooting victims came into the hospital. “The victims were not entirely cooperative,” […]
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Lodi police sealed entry to the Parkwest Casino at 1800 S. Cherokee Lane on Friday morning as detectives investigated a dead body and the events leading up to the man’s death. At 7:39 a.m. Lodi police officers responded to reports of an attempted robbery at the casino. When officers arrived, they found a man dead, […]
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Sacramento police said Monday they arrested the man who shot and killed a well-liked Capitol staffer outside a downtown card room early Sunday before engaging in a wild shootout with a police officer. The alleged shooter and two other men were arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder of a police officer and weapons charges, […]
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A girlfriend tipped off deputies that her gangster boyfriend robbed the Golden West Casino and was planning another heist that was going to be “the same as last time,” according to court documents. New details emerged Tuesday about the five Los Angeles Crips gang members arrested for trying to rob the casino last week and […]
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Three men who robbed an Alameda woman at gunpoint early Tuesday targeted her as she visited an Emeryville card club and then followed her home, police said. The robbery of the 52-year-old woman marks the fourth time since September that an Alameda resident has been robbed after leaving the Oaks Card Room on San Pablo […]
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Antioch police are searching for four suspects in an armed robbery at a card room and restaurant late Wednesday night. According to police, four people brandishing handguns entered Kelly’s Casino, located on the 400 block of O Street, just before midnight. They robbed the business and its patrons of an unknown amount of cash and […]
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LIVERMORE — The owners of a small Hayward casino were tied up and had their faces covered by gunmen during a home invasion robbery Tuesday morning, police said. Few details were released Wednesday morning, but the victims appeared to be part owners of the Palace Poker Casino, a small gambling house on Mission Boulevard in […]
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SAN JOSE — Investigators are seeking a suspect in a weekend brawl outside Casino M8trix where he stabbed a man then opened fire on a group of the victim’s friends before disappearing, according to San Jose police. The melee erupted around 2:30 a.m. Sunday when two men got into a “heated exchange of words” inside […]
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On Monday, morning April 25 at about 4:45, Office of the Contra Costa County Sheriff dispatch received a report that an armed robbery was taking place at the California Grand Casino at the 5900 block of Pacheco Boulevard in Pacheco. Deputies responded along with officers from nearby law enforcement agencies. A perimeter was set up […]
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Guns drawn, sheriff’s deputies on Monday morning surrounded the California Grand Casino in Pacheco looking for a robbery suspect who wore a Halloween mask, orange gloves and was armed with a semi-automatic rifle. Contra Costa County Sheriff’s spokesman Jimmy Lee said the suspect took some casino chips, and then took off in a four-door Mercedes, […]
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A grand jury indictment unsealed Wednesday charges 25 people and two businesses with participating in an illegal gambling operation that laundered an estimated $10 million in gambling proceeds through card rooms in Chula Vista and San Diego. A contingent of federal, state and local law enforcement personnel, including a SWAT team, served search warrants at […]
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities raided two card clubs on Wednesday and made arrests in seven states as they dismembered a massive illegal gambling operation that allegedly ran card games out of Southern California mansions, took bets from Canada to Mexico and laundered $10 million through San Diego County card clubs and Las Vegas casinos. […]
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Busts from Chula Vista to New Jersey, involving sports betting and poker in Rancho Santa Fe Federal authorities announced Wednesday that 25 people have been indicted in a massive international gambling ring that netted $10 million in profits from sports betting and high-stakes card games played at swanky rented Rancho Santa Fe mansions. The two-year-long […]
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A federal grand jury is probing a Los Angeles-area casino following allegations by state authorities the business allowed some players to evade transaction reporting requirements and possibly launder money, a source said. The grand jury is probing the operations of the Gardena-based Normandie Casino, the source said. Authorities suspect many of California’s roughly 90 casinos […]
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STOCKTON – A man was stabbed during a robbery outside a Stockton card room Thursday night, authorities said. The victim was getting into his car shortly after 9:30 p.m. after leaving the Delta Casino in the 6500 block of Pacific Avenue when he was approached by his assailant, police said. The assailant asked the victim […]
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SANTA ANA, Calif. » A man who killed a Southern California casino winner during a botched robbery has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. The Orange County Register says Tad Carroll was sentenced Friday, two months after pleading guilty to first-degree murder. Another defendant, Barbara Hamel, had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder but prosecutors […]
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FOSTER CITY, Calif. Police say the victim spent Saturday night gambling at the Lucky Chances Casino in Colma. After driving back to his hotel in Foster City, he was approached in the parking lot by two men; one was armed with a shotgun. The victim, a 68-year-old man visiting from Oklahoma, handed over his wallet, […]
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A janitor cleaning the Limelight cardroom on Alhambra Boulevard was robbed at gunpoint Monday morning, according to Sacramento police.
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Tomas Infante, 60, of West Covina was arrested early Monday, according to the sheriff’s department. A 60-year-old man was arrested early today on suspicion of killing his wife whose body was found inside her vehicle parked at the Hawaiian Gardens Casino. Tomas Infante was arrested at 12:55 a.m. Monday by sheriff’s homicide investigators. He is […]
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The masked robber entered the Ventura Players Casino purposefully, brandishing his weapon — a rifle — and ordering security guards, employees and gamblers down to the ground. He headed quickly to the cashier’s cage, demanded and took exactly what had brought him to 6580 Auto Center Drive early Friday. But he didn’t leave before his […]
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This was one casino employee who had no problem dealing a bad hand. A would-be robbery victim pulled a gun from his car – instead of reaching for his wallet – and shot a 13-year-old in the hand during a bizarre early morning incident Tuesday outside a downtown Gilroy card club. This was one casino […]
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Northern California today announced an indictment of a crime ring working out of two card clubs shut down yesterday by federal agents. The clubs are Artichoke Joe’s Casino in San Bruno and Oaks Card Club in Emeryville. So how long will these gambling establishments be closed? From the Examiner: Both operations were served with […]
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Robbers in two separate, late-weekend incidents threatened more than five dozen people, including children, with guns and stole money and jewelry, Stockton police said. No one was hurt. Three masked and armed men ambushed a Pacific Avenue card club around midnight Sunday, forcing approximately 50 patrons to lay on the floor before fleeing with an […]
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VENTURA — A 30-year-old card dealer from Camarillo, described as having a hot temper and a pile of gambling debts, turned himself in in the shooting of a colleague, Ventura police said Saturday. Michael Gawlick, a dealer at Ventura’s Ash Street Card Club, was charged Friday by the district attorney’s office with the murder of 36-year-old […]
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VENTURA — Investigators were searching Thursday for the killer of a local card club dealer who was shot while counting out receipts the night before. Why 36-year-old Craig Gronenthal–described by friends as a friendly and outgoing ex-Marine–was shot to death is still a mystery, Ventura Police Lt. Don Arth said. “We’re assuming the motivation was robbery, […]
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MORRO BAY, Calif. (AP) _ Lynwood ″Crazy Jim″ Drake III had told many people that someday he was going to kill his enemies and himself. But he was regarded as such a ″nut″ that no one took him seriously – until it was too late. On Saturday, the 43-year-old unemployed construction worker shot to death […]
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