I think there are much more worse crimes happening all the time. Why do they spend money and time for cases like this?
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Pool Players Busted for Gambling
Gray Hall
Count on 2 Crimetracker
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
A 5-dollar entry for a pool tournament lands ten people in court. Each charged with gambling and fined 475-dollars. All this after investigators raided the Pour House Bar on Highway 17.
The bar was raided after undercover officers witnessed pool players betting on a tournament. The pool players are all breathing a sigh of relief. The city has agreed to defer their case for 60 days. this means all the fines will be dropped and the charges will be dismissed
If the pool players stay out of trouble for sixty days. When they were busted.... the players say they had no idea they were breaking the law. Kenny Cook, a pool payers says, "I didn't really know what was going on I didn't think I was doing anything wrong...I thought they were there for something else.."
The weekly pool tournament was held at the Pour House Bar. It was advertised in the paper for about a year. The players attorney says the case should have been handle differently.
Attorney Mike Seeking, representing the players says, "where are we right now in a place where we are prosecuting people for playing five dollar pool games....if this is the worse thing that is going on in the city of charleston then we live in the safest place in America"
Gambling is illegal in South Carolina and the city attorney says the charges were valid. Prosecutor Melinda Luca says, "the city in that light felt that it was very necessary to send a message which i believe we have done successfully and part of that message what that this really just can't go on.."
Cook says, " Ididn't feel like anything was wrong with that and people play money to play things all over town churches have bingo....and the state has a lottery and we can't have a little five dollar tournament and hang out."
For the players involved their case has been deferred for sixty days. The manager has a six month deferral and the tournament coordinator was convicted and has a 90 day deferral. For those not convicted, if they stay out of trouble for the deferral time, all charges and fines will be dropped.
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Pool Players Busted for Gambling
Gray Hall
Count on 2 Crimetracker
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
A 5-dollar entry for a pool tournament lands ten people in court. Each charged with gambling and fined 475-dollars. All this after investigators raided the Pour House Bar on Highway 17.
The bar was raided after undercover officers witnessed pool players betting on a tournament. The pool players are all breathing a sigh of relief. The city has agreed to defer their case for 60 days. this means all the fines will be dropped and the charges will be dismissed
If the pool players stay out of trouble for sixty days. When they were busted.... the players say they had no idea they were breaking the law. Kenny Cook, a pool payers says, "I didn't really know what was going on I didn't think I was doing anything wrong...I thought they were there for something else.."
The weekly pool tournament was held at the Pour House Bar. It was advertised in the paper for about a year. The players attorney says the case should have been handle differently.
Attorney Mike Seeking, representing the players says, "where are we right now in a place where we are prosecuting people for playing five dollar pool games....if this is the worse thing that is going on in the city of charleston then we live in the safest place in America"
Gambling is illegal in South Carolina and the city attorney says the charges were valid. Prosecutor Melinda Luca says, "the city in that light felt that it was very necessary to send a message which i believe we have done successfully and part of that message what that this really just can't go on.."
Cook says, " Ididn't feel like anything was wrong with that and people play money to play things all over town churches have bingo....and the state has a lottery and we can't have a little five dollar tournament and hang out."
For the players involved their case has been deferred for sixty days. The manager has a six month deferral and the tournament coordinator was convicted and has a 90 day deferral. For those not convicted, if they stay out of trouble for the deferral time, all charges and fines will be dropped.
