Big Arrests in Poker World

December 28, 2008

Two men have been arrested for running illegal poker site. The Salt Lake Police Department has made an arrest of a 61 year old Sandy man who was running an illegal poker room, and the Little Rock Police Department arrested a 38 year old man for doing a similar thing.

The man from Salt Lake City was indicted by a federal grand jury on four counts of money laundering and operating an illegal poker room. He is charged with running the poker room from April 2003 to June 2006 and they allege that he made around $400,000 from the illegal poker games.

The US Department of Justice says that they are issuing a summons for him to appear in federal court. If he is convicted he will be looking at up to 10 years for each of the four counts.

A man in Little Rock got off a little easier. Logan Wight Dungan was arrested after a raid on an illegal poker establishment that he was running. He said that it was legal, and was sentenced to three years probation in the matter. Dungan was running a National Poker Challenge franchise and five people were arrested after the initial raid. However, Dungan was the only one charged.

He entered into a plea of no contest to the charge of keeping a gambling house. He had to forfeit his poker tables and all of the equipment that went with it. He also had to pay a $300 fine – but easily got off better than his counterpart.