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More Internet Gambling Busts in America
 April 26, 2007, 7:44 pm (4 years ago)The actual reports that are coming in from Phoenix Arizonia actually indicate that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has actually served forty four warrants on Tuesday in the actual culmination of the two year long undercover operation that was held targeting an international gambling ring that is based in Phoenix but is actually using internet betting sites.
The Sheriff known as Joe Arpaio, actually told KPHO that the “operation high stakes” had indeed actually involved undercover deputies who had successfully penetrated four different but also loosely connected groups that were working out of a variety of homes as well as businesses in the Valley that has actually used unidentified internet based betting sites to actually take the illegal gambling bets online or via a toll free telephone number.
Joe Arpaio also said that while most of the bets were made online through betting sites that were based in Costa Rica, the actual payouts and collections has occurred in the local Phoenix bars and also restaurants that were located throughout the Valley area.
Arpaio also said “millions of dollars were being collected and sometimes extorted from people here who placed bets through these illegal gambling operations”. “If someone couldn’t pay their debts the interest rates were as high as fifty one percent were actually levied.”
Joe Arpaio also has said that the large amounts of cocaine were also flowing through the gambling syndicates. Arpaio said “some people were even forced to give up their homes and their retirements to pay off the organizations loan sharks.”
In the news conference that was held “Joe Arpaio actually told the reporters that forty four search warrants were executed Tuesday morning and that that was including a number of private residences as well as businesses and also private vaults. He also revealed that at the same time there were search warrants that were being put into action in Las Vegas as well as Los Angeles.
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