OT:Nine Men Arrested for Gambling on Pee Wee Football Games

[Southpaw]

Maybe this is the wrong forum, but I am not sure


http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2012/10/nine_men_arrested_for_gambling.php

Nine Men Arrested for Gambling on Pee Wee Football Games
By Chris Joseph Tue., Oct. 30 2012 at 1:03 PM



Nine men have been arrested for gambling on pee wee football games, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.

The Lauderhill and Fort Lauderdale police departments, as well as the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and the United States Marshals Service all joined forces in an 18-month long investigation called "Operation Dirty Play," where the alleged winnings totaled more than a hundred grand, according to an arrest warrant.

All nine have been charged with bookmaking, keeping a gambling house, and other offenses.

The investigation, which was kicked off in May in 2011 after an ESPN report, revealed that coaches, team affiliates and the president of the South Florida Youth Football League routinely set point spreads prior to each game.

Deputies and officers conducted search warrants on Monday at two businesses that served as gambling houses.

According to the detectives, illegal bets were routinely made at Showtime Sports and Apparel, (3685 N.W. 19th St. Lauderdale Lakes), and Red Carpet Kutz Barbershop, (1835 N.W. 38th Ave., Lauderhill).


Gamblers would place bets on mostly professional and collegiate games at those locations, but detectives also say there were numerous bets laid down on youth football games.

Of the nine people involved, all have direct ties to the South Florida Youth Football League and six have extensive criminal histories. They were charged with felony bookmaking, and some were charged with keeping a gambling house. They are:

• Brandon Bivins, coach and president of the Ft. Lauderdale Hurricanes
• Darron Lashawn Bostic, coach of the Deerfield Beach Packer-Rattlers
• Darren Jerome Brown, coach/affiliate of the Ft. Lauderdale Hurricanes
• Brandon Marlon Lewis, affiliate of the Ft. Lauderdale Hurricanes
• Brad Donte Parker, affiliate of the Ft. Lauderdale Hurricanes
• La Taurus Tarmayne Fort, coach of the Northwest Broward Raiders
• Dave Constantine Small, coach of the Lauderhill Lions
• Willie Tindal, coach of the Northwest Broward Raiders
• Vincent Gernard Gray, coach of the Ft. Lauderdale Hurricanes

Anyone with information about youth football gambling in Broward County is asked to contact the BSO's Organized Crime Unit's Youth Football Hotline at 954-888-5259.

 

[Fitz Rulz]

One of the reason we see violent acts in those games now
Coaches & parents are ruining youth sports

 

[1DS]

Ruining, or making way better..?

Ok, ruining works.

 

[Duckjake]

One of the reason we see violent acts in those games now
Coaches & parents are ruining youth sports

Of the nine people involved, all have direct ties to the South Florida Youth Football League and six have extensive criminal histories.

Those type parents ruin everything.

I don't see anything wrong with friendly wagers on Pee Wee Football. We've been known to bet on which bird will fly off a building first. Fixing games or violating statutes by taking a cut is wrong.

Hey Southpaw. Did you see that Tyrann Matthieu has moved in with Patrick Peterson's family in South Florida?

 

[Southpaw]

Hey Southpaw. Did you see that Tyrann Matthieu has moved in with Patrick Peterson's family in South Florida?

Good for him, because there aren't any drugs in South Florida.

 

[THESMEL]

and these lil piggys went Pee WEE Herman- all the way to the big house.