{"id":8927,"date":"2015-06-12T16:05:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T16:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/06\/12\/police-arrest-8-in-mafia-linked-sports-betting-operation\/"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:05:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T16:05:24","slug":"police-arrest-8-in-mafia-linked-sports-betting-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/06\/12\/police-arrest-8-in-mafia-linked-sports-betting-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest 8 in Mafia-linked sports betting operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nROCKLAND, N.Y. (AP) \u2013 Police in suburban New York have arrested eight people in a sports betting operation as investigators crack down on mob-run gambling and loansharking.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Journal News reports (<!-- m --><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/lohud.us\/1MMNXx6\">http:\/\/lohud.us\/1MMNXx6<\/a><!-- m --> ) authorities said Thursday that the 10-month investigation focused on illegal high-interest street loans and an Internet off-shore gambling website.<\/p>\n<p>\tInvestigators seized illegal gambling records, computers and more than $750,000 through warrants in Florida, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\tThose arrested are accused of collecting bets and pressuring people who borrowed money at interest rates topping 25 percent to make payments.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe suspects were arraigned and released without bail.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKLAND, N.Y. (AP) \u2013 Police in suburban New York have arrested eight people in a sports betting operation as investigators crack down on mob-run gambling and loansharking. The Journal News reports (http:\/\/lohud.us\/1MMNXx6 ) authorities said Thursday that the 10-month investigation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}