Former NFL player Ross Verba arrested over gambling debt
LAS VEGAS SUN:
Former professional football player Ross Verba faces the prospect of sitting in jail over the Thanksgiving holiday after his arrest in Phoenix on charges of failing to pay a $26,000 gambling debt to the Palms.
Chief District Attorney Bernie Zadrowski says Verba, 36, was arrested on a Nevada arrest warrant. He is charged with three counts of writing bad checks to the Palms in January 2008.
Verba, an offensive lineman who played with the Green Bay Packers, Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions, is fighting extradition to Nevada, which means investigators with the district attorney’s office will likely have to go to Phoenix to bring him back, Zadrowski says.
This isn’t the former first-round draft choice’s first brush with the law over Las Vegas gambling debts.
He was arrested on bad check charges in Wisconsin in January 2007 for failing to pay for $50,000 in markers at Wynn Las Vegas. Those charges were dismissed after he paid off that debt.
LAS VEGAS SUN:
Former professional football player Ross Verba faces the prospect of sitting in jail over the Thanksgiving holiday after his arrest in Phoenix on charges of failing to pay a $26,000 gambling debt to the Palms.
Chief District Attorney Bernie Zadrowski says Verba, 36, was arrested on a Nevada arrest warrant. He is charged with three counts of writing bad checks to the Palms in January 2008.
Verba, an offensive lineman who played with the Green Bay Packers, Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions, is fighting extradition to Nevada, which means investigators with the district attorney’s office will likely have to go to Phoenix to bring him back, Zadrowski says.
This isn’t the former first-round draft choice’s first brush with the law over Las Vegas gambling debts.
He was arrested on bad check charges in Wisconsin in January 2007 for failing to pay for $50,000 in markers at Wynn Las Vegas. Those charges were dismissed after he paid off that debt.