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Tuesday 4th December 2007

Four Arrested in Raid on Illegal Poker Game

A raid on a New Jersey poker game last Friday led to the arrest of four men on gambling and drug offences.

The raid was conducted shortly after midnight at a house in the Englewood Cliffs district after police received complaints from neighbours about suspicious activity at the address, Bergen County prosecutor John Molinelli said.

Undercover detectives from the Bergen County Police Force infiltrated the poker game and observed high stakes games of Texas Hold’em were being played from 10pm until the early hours the next day, typically six nights a week. Organisers of the home game took a cut from the games, which is what rendered the game illegal and separates it from a friendly game of cards with friends.

The raids follow on from the high profile case of Frank DeSena, who was shot dead in an armed raid on a high-stakes poker club in Manhattan. A Bronx man was charged with the crime but later released after prosecutors declined to take the case to a grand jury.

The owner of the house which was raided was arrested, along with two other men. They were charged with maintaining a gambling resort, which is a fourth degree crime. Another man was charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

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