Video Poker 24/7 - Latest Poker Raid Has Ties to Previous One

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It seems that there are people arrested this past weekend were involved in a poker ring back in 2006. Last Friday night, a ten month investigation into another poker ring came to a head with the raid of Martin Orlando Reyes’ home located in Hanahan. Investigators obtained 191 warrants and charged 65 people in the poker raid.

However, some of the people involved in this raid were also involved in one back in 2006 at a Mount Pleasant home. Bob Chimento and 23 other participants were charged with illegal gambling when they were raided by police. Two years later, Chimento has been caught again.

But he is not the only one, there were several other people that were charged in the Mt. Pleasant raid in attendance when the Hanahan bust went down. But Chimento is still waiting trial for the last one, and is looking forward to his day in court. He says the likening of what they do in these homes to the same idea as video poker is outrageous.

They know that video poker is illegal, and they don’t have any part of that. However, they say that a friendly game of poker at someone’s homes should not be the target of a police investigation.

Police disagree and say that tens of thousands of dollars are moved at these games. They say that they have a professional operation going on, and it is illegal per South Carolina law.

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