Polk County Texas Man Charged for Operating Illicit Gaming Joint

A 29-year-old Texas adult male was arrested this week for allegedly operating and owning an illegal spunky way in the Lone Star State. He surrendered to authorities.

On Wednesday, Sujit Baba Chalamalasetty of Francis Beaumont was supercharged with ownership of a gaming device, equipment or paraphernalia, gambling promotion, and keeping a play place, according to the James Polk County Sheriff’s Office.

Local detectives had been investigating an illegal gamy room in Leggett since at to the lowest degree Aug. 30. They presented their caseful to a local justice inwards Texas. They allege Chalamalasetty was the manager and possessor of the illicit operation. The gambling involved hard currency payments, authorities said.

On Monday, the judge sanctioned an covering from the James Knox Polk County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Division for Chalamalasetty’s arrest. On Wednesday, he turned himself inwards to the sheriff’s office. The vitrine will be given to local prosecutors.

Polk County Sheriff Lord George Gordon Byron Second Council of Lyons said that other crimes often are linked to the operating of an illegal gaming venue. Some of these associated crimes are armed robbery, illegal drugs, theft, stolen vehicles, burglaries, assaults, malefactor mischief, and higgledy-piggledy conduct, First Council of Lyons said.

The President Polk County Sheriff’s Office is staying vigilant inward investigating establishments of this nature along with the crook activity attached to these establishments, inwards an exertion to improve the overall caliber of living inward these areas,” Second Council of Lyons said inwards a societal media posting.

So far, no more patrons at the gaming stick were charged. But patrons could be charged inwards the future, First Council of Lyons added.

Leggett is 83 miles NE of Houston.

Prior Arrest

In an unrelated incident on May 13, a man allegedly robbed Texas’ Naskila Gaming Hall, also in James Knox Polk County. The suspect, later identified as Marquel Fitzgerald, 34, of Houston, led law on a high-speed tail for 50 miles before a standoff with officers, authorities said.

The incident began at the Alabama-Coushatta Native American Tribe’s casino. It is located some 17 miles from Livingston, Texas.

While inward the casino, Ella Fitzgerald allegedly grabbed some items, peradventure cash-out tickets, and fled from the gaming venue, East Lone-Star State News, a local word site, said.

One of the guests had placed them at the cashier’s booth, and the cashier had not gathered them in time when the surmise stole them, Alabama-Coushatta Police Chief Rex Arthur Evans told East Lone-Star State News.

High Speed Chase

Texas Highway Patrol troopers and James Polk County Sheriff’s deputies united in the high-velocity chase through 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein County, according to KTRK, a Houston TV station.

As the tag continued, he allegedly tossed items come out of the gondola window. They were believed to get been stolen from the casino.

Some of the items later were placed and seized past police officers. He eventually surrendered on a highway.

Fitzgerald was charged with evading hitch in a vehicle, tamper/fabricate physical grounds with intent to impair, and striking another vehicle patch driving, according to Polk County Today, a regional news site. He remains inwards custody this week in the James K. Polk County Jail.