(CBS/AP) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Some of the metropolitan area’s biggest sports gamblers weren’t able to place their wagers Monday because officers arrested 18 operators and bookies and dismantled a $2 million-a-week Internet betting ring, officials said.
The bets — on many professional and college sports, with limits as high as $100,000 — had been funneled by computer to a “wire room” in Costa Rica, said Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore.
“You name it, they were betting on it,” said Steven Vandervelden, head of DiFiore’s criminal enterprise division. There was some online casino betting as well as the sports wagers, he said.
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