High Stakes Poker Arrest

[Stagemusic]

Don't play high limit in Miami...They seem to not like it much.

Raven's Cornerback arrested (http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/8483904.htm?1c)

[TylerD]

Can you post it here I can't be arsed to sign up.

[Stagemusic]

Sure...

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Ravens' Fuller Charged for Gambling

BRENT KALLESTAD

Associated Press


TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Baltimore Ravens cornerback Corey Fuller was charged with hosting high-stakes card games at his house, the site of a shootout three months ago.

He was released on $5,000 bail Tuesday night after a search warrant was served at the house. The felony charge carries a possible five-year state prison sentence and $5,000 fine.

State law allows card players to gamble up to $10 a hand, but sheriff's spokeswoman Linda Butler said Wednesday some pots were worth thousands of dollars, and games were held several times a week.

When some 20 law enforcement officers broke up the game, called "Georgia skins," they seized "thousands of dollars" that were on the table, Butler said.

"We have been made aware of the situation. We are gathering information," Ravens spokesman Chad Steele said Wednesday.

Fuller's agent, Roosevelt Barnes, did not immediately return a call.

Authorities were unsure if the shooting was related to the card games.

"It's being explored, but at this point we don't have anything to suggest that," Butler said.

Fuller, a nine-year veteran out of Florida State, reported exchanging gunfire with an intruder outside his home in January. No one was injured and about 20 shots were fired. Fuller offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

The investigation began in February, and an undercover agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement attended some games.

Eleven people were at Fuller's home at the time of the raid, and eight were arrested, Butler said. Five others are being sought on warrants.

All but one were from Tallahassee and none of the others charged was an athlete.


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[J.R.]

What a joke, you would think there would be better things for 20 law enforcement officers to do than to break up a card game hosted by a millionaire. Although with how slow Corey Fuller has become, and how badly he gets beat on deep routes over the middle, this might be a good thing for the Ravens.

[Phat Mack]

called "Georgia skins,"

What are Georgia skins? Sounds vaguely familiar....

[Boris]

[Anadrol 50]

What a joke....

Like there's no other crime in FL.

[mosch]

According to this page (http://tallahassee.areaconnect.com/crime1.htm) Tallahassee has more than the national average in murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, larceny and car theft. Clearly this was the best possible use of police resources.

[thetman]

Sounds like some serious criminals...not very smart having big games at a house on the way to Krispy Kreme though...

[MicroBob]

"the site of a shootout three months ago."


seems to me he had already attracted the attention of authorities.


my uncle lives in tallahassee....and i think he is near a Krispy-Kreme. maybe their neighbors.

[Schmed]

It's obviously silly if they were targetting a poker game in someones house but it wasn't too long ago that Fuller was outside popping caps all over the neighborhood at some "unknown" intruder.

This just in....if you shoot off 12 bullets in a suburban neighborhood at an "unknown" intruder the police are going to be watching you.