‘People get killed over $20000’: Cocaine baron Owen Hanson threatens high-roller who lost $2.5m in The Star casino – 9news.com.au

Californian Owen “O-Dog” Hanson, the kingpin of an illegal gambling racket and cocaine ring smuggling drugs into Australia, understood how to collect a debt. The FBI had monitored the muscle-bound ex-college football star and his crew of heavies as they used intimidation, threats and violence to haul in cash owed criminal underworld figures who did…

Simon Neil Miles, 31, from Sarnau took £20000 from bank account of neighbour, 84, to pay off £10000 gambling debts – Tivyside Advertiser

A Good Samaritan who made regular trips to help his elderly neighbour emptied the 84-year-old’s bank account of £20,000 in order to feed his own gambling addiction. Simon Neil Miles, 31, of Sarnau, was a regular visitor at the home of pensioner Dewi Davies, working in the garden and helping with other household chores. Aberystwyth…