FL Teen Busted for Running Illegal Gambling Op: Was Making $10,000 a Day
- Posted on March 17, 2012 at 6:32pm by
Erica Ritz
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19-year old south Florida resident Briana Rios has been arrested for running an illegal gambling operation, where she was reportedly making $10,000 a day (or more).
Judge John Hurley remarked, “It looks like there were a lot of customers going in here. You even [allegedly] had computers inside to help you place the bets…This doesn’t look like a small, penny ante operation. Seems like a pretty big operation.”
Reportedly active between October and December of 2011, her prorated annual earnings could have been around $300,000 a year.
Rios’ ex-boyfriend, Jose Solis, maintains that Rios is not “a mastermind of the whole gambling situation,” rather, the man who hired her left her in charge and fled to the Dominican Republic.
She didn’t seem like a total mastermind in front of the judge. When he said that bets were placed for the NFL and NBA, and she incriminated herself by adding, “hockey.”
Watch NBC Miami report on the event, below:
The Huffington Post also reported:
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sirocco78
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 7:33pmThis is illegal why?
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:52pmIt‘s only illegal if you aren’t a “Native American”, but last I checked, my birth certificate ( an official paper copy from the Oklahoma Department of Health) says that I am a natural born American and thus I am native to this land. If you can’t tell, I’m sick of Indians getting priority seating on this slow boat to slavery.
Report Post »AuH2O
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:28amIt‘s illegal because the government isn’t getting its cut.
Report Post »AuH2O
Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:29amIt‘s illegal because the government isn’t getting it’s cut.
Report Post »ContinentalArmy
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 3:39pmFree Enterprise! Obama should give this Gal a Cabinet Job, She’s doing a lot better than Fluke, At least Briana is making money not a free rider like Fluke! Shoot the jerk that ratted her out! Take a look at the Feds and how much they Rip off the American People, Whats the Difference? At least Briana isn’t killing People like this Administration is Doing!!!! Leave Her Alone!!!!
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 2:18pmOnly legal when the government does it
Report Post »flatbroke
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 1:40pmThe great entoprenueal spirit lives in this country, despite Obummers attempts to communize the country, too bad she was competing with the Govt for money, and they shut her down, the goveronment hates competition.
Report Post »Juniemoon
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 1:23pmHe can talk about entrepreneurship all he wants, but let‘s talk about Cass Sustein’s rules and regulations against it, you know Obama, that Czar of yours? Front man and hit man, working together.
Report Post »Hrothgar
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 10:46amOne word, Entrepreneur. I used to do stuff like this in college but never on a large scale. Maybe making 200-300 clams a week in small gambling ventures, from poker to craps and back to roulette. The athletic teams were always the best customers.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 11:32amIf she were a member of congress she could do some insider trading and that would be legal. But THIS avoids taxes and the “government” cut.
You can’t go against the government rackets. They don’t tolerate that, at all.
Report Post »florida123
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 7:44amGov’t picking winners and losers once again! You can go to the local casino or racing facility and gamble your self into ruins, but if the Gov’t doesnt get its extortion cut hang it in your butt!
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 10:33pmCan’t get away with this stuff these days. The feds want their money, and they are willing to do whatever it takes to get it.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 9:10pmYeah, leave her alone, she was tired of being one of the 99% and decided she liked being one of the 1%. This is nothing but discrimination. I say pat her on the back and release her. At least she isn’t on the government dole.
Report Post »Netsurfer2
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 9:07pmWhat’s interesting is that the person who was ahead of the operation fled while leaving them holding the bag! Not like there is any honor when it comes to making illegal money!
Report Post »jeffersonian1776
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 8:35pmThis is “illegal” where in the Constitution? Was she harming anyone? This would be illegal only in the case of fraudulent activities. Were people coming to her out of THEIR OWN FREE WILL, or not? Was she coercing or compelling someone into making this so-called illegal transaction? Was this an agreement between two consenting parties who obviously would not have made these financial agreements/transactions? When I buy a loaf of bread for $2.00, I obviously valued the bread more than the $2.00 and more than making it myself. Say that bread was $10.00, I would probably not buy it out of the fact that I value the $10.00 more than the bread, therefore I would make it myself for less. Starting to get the pcture here? Nobody was being forced i nto anything. The only ones who can do that, and do that constantly and very well, is of course those with a monopoly on violence (i.e., the government). You may start believing now that you‘ve read what I’ve wrote–that us real “free-marketers” are too loony for your liking–but way deep down, the sad part is, that you know I’m right. But that’s okay, this team is not for the faint of heart; you may continue to keep playing that game of being nice and not standing up for yourself, meanwhile, us loonies will be looking out for your LIBERTY.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 8:39pmIF we had the fair tax she would have been helping the economy.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 7:24pmSilly girl. ONLY American Indians, hotel magnates, the Catholic Church, and “education” (states) are allowed to operate gambling.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 7:27pmOh, I left out the stock market and the federal reserve “bank.”
Report Post »geonj
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 7:43pmso bingo is gambling? moron.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 9:38pmNever heard of reservation casinos? Moron.
Report Post »airportengineer
Posted on March 18, 2012 at 1:37pmCatholic church runs “gambling” operations????
Report Post »Your definition of gambling is what? Never seen anything more than a cake walk at their Fall Festival!
rottiesforfreedom
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 7:19pmits only aganst the law because the govt. hates competetion
Report Post »semihardrock
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 7:08pmOrganized crime CANNOT allow a small time operation like this get in their way of a real operation (who now operate local casinos action, with NO LAWS…..“sovereign nation”)
Almost like a smaller version set up of Federal Reserve Bank … but on Tribal Land. As long as Congress and US Treasury keeps printing money when Fed tells them too, EVERYBODY is HAPPY and NOBODY cares!!!
Just as the Federal Reserve uses US Military and Homeland Security to protect their endless supply of cash from US Taxpayers paying the “vig” and spreading the Communist agenda through Government Unions (DOE, indoctrination), organized crime uses local law enforement to protect their endless cash flow.
Someone made a phonecall to…. help….. “Law Enforcement,” and put the entrepeneur out of business..lol
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 7:20pmClassic “Laugh-In” line….verrrrrrry in—-ter—-es—ting!
Report Post »patspeak
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 6:57pmIs she a legal citizen? Or was she an illegal booky citizen making illegal bets? Huffington Post is the worse!
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 7:22pmJust another Obama money bundler.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 6:44pmShe has a future in the healthcare industry, it will be a gamble on whether you get doctors care or not. Place your bets.
Report Post »Netsurfer2
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 9:03pmLOL… And we will have to vote for what ever they want to pass to find out what’s in it (healthcare bill)!
Maybe we can have the black panthers waiting outside to guard the polls???
Report Post »snooop1e
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 8:09pmIn this country you can murder/abort a thousand babies a day and you are a “humanitarian providing much needed ”healthcare“ and ”family planning“ services” but make some money under the table and the Fed will come after you and destroy you.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 17, 2012 at 8:41pmChurches should not take care of the poor… and people should not gambol… for a Socialist Government has the responsibility to Collect Funds and hand out All Welfate & Entitlements… in exchange for Votes to keep it in Power!
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