{"id":7507,"date":"2014-06-14T13:53:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T13:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/06\/14\/prison-for-craps-cheater\/"},"modified":"2014-06-14T13:53:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T13:53:11","slug":"prison-for-craps-cheater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/06\/14\/prison-for-craps-cheater\/","title":{"rendered":"prison for Craps cheater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nNJ man sentenced to 17 years for casino cheating<\/p>\n<p>\tATLANTIC CITY (AP) \u2014 A northern New Jersey man\u2019s penchant for cheating at craps has earned him a lengthy prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>\tDerek Bethea was sentenced to 17 years in state prison on Friday after a jury found him guilty of cheating at three Atlantic City casinos last summer. The incidents occurred weeks after Bethea had been released from prison on a previous cheating conviction.<\/p>\n<p>\tAfter a weeklong trial last month, Bethea was convicted of swindling and cheating at casino gambling. Prosecutors introduced evidence that showed the 57-year-old Bayonne resident had posted bets at the craps tables after the dice had already come out. The incidents occurred at the Borgata, Resorts and Revel casinos last August.<\/p>\n<p>\tBethea was convicted in 2001 and 2005 for similar crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- m --><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trentonian.com\/general-news\/20140613\/nj-man-sentenced-to-17-years-for-casino-cheating\">http:\/\/www.trentonian.com\/general-news\/ &#8230; o-cheating<\/a><!-- m --><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NJ man sentenced to 17 years for casino cheating ATLANTIC CITY (AP) \u2014 A northern New Jersey man\u2019s penchant for cheating at craps has earned him a lengthy prison sentence. Derek Bethea was sentenced to 17 years in state prison&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}