CHICAGO (AP) Cook County authorities say that a 79-year-old used-car dealer fatally shot a 40-year acquaintance in Chicago during an argument over a gambling debt. The Chicago Tribune reports that Willie Dunmore was held on a $200,000 bond Saturday. He is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of James Kelley, 72. Kelley…
The Baccarat table found outside the gambling den in Yannawa district on Monday. (Photo: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul) A video spreading on social media shows men hastily removing the security cameras at a gambling den in Bangkok’s Yannawa district where four peopled were shot dead on Monday night, one of them an off-duty police major. “Remove all…
Forensic police arrive to collect evidence at the alleged gambling den in Yannawa district, Bangkok, on Tuesday. (Photo: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul) The Metropolitan Police Bureau has yet to verify if the place where a police officer was shot dead on Monday night was an illegal casino, the bureau chief said. Pol Lt Gen Pakapong Pongpetra, commissioner…
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The case was interesting for many reasons. The Star Entertainment Group sued a gambler on behalf of The Star Gold Coast Casino in Queensland for more than $43 million. It was a massive case of a casino versus a high-stakes baccarat player. When it went in front of the Singapore International Commercial Court last year,…
The Government has promised to review gambling legislation but patience is running out amid worries that the industry could be used for money laundering. A boom in online and mobile gaming has seen licensed gambling grow by 57 percent in a decade fuelling worries about the human cost. Related articles Betting companies in Great Britain…
Police and emergency units inspect the scene where Pratum Saardnuk was shot dead. Pattaya police arrested two men who allegedly shot dead a Pattaya motorcycle-taxi driver in broad daylight a suspected gambling debt. Please Support Pattaya Mail Manas Imnam, 39, and NiphonPanthong, 45, were captured early Thursday by police in Bangsaen where they allegedly fled…
Police and emergency units inspect the scene where Pratum Saardnuk was shot dead. Pattaya police arrested two men who allegedly shot dead a Pattaya motorcycle-taxi driver in broad daylight a suspected gambling debt. Please Support Pattaya Mail Manas Imnam, 39, and NiphonPanthong, 45, were captured early Thursday by police in Bangsaen where they allegedly fled…
Dannys last bet was two years ago. But I still think about gambling addiction, and the anxieties and worries it digs up, every day and probably always will. I think about how my fiancs addiction has cost me more than money but my story is not one of doom, and fortunately Danny (not his real…
A financial planner conned a couple out of $360,000, sinking to staggering depths of deceit so he could pay off his credit cards and feed an online gambling addiction, a court has heard. Daniel Peter Logan, 40, was in extreme financial stress when he took the Brisbane couple on as clients while working as a…
