{"id":35018,"date":"2025-07-30T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/35018\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:00:08","slug":"ex-nba-star-gilbert-arenas-arrested-for-allegedly-operating-illegal-gambling-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/35018\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NBA Star Gilbert Arenas Arrested for Allegedly Operating Illegal Gambling Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_1nzc5zjg5\">Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLevineReports\/status\/1950620166733107578\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was arrested on Wednesday<\/a>, along with five others, on a federal indictment alleging the group &#8220;operated an illegal gambling business in which high-stakes poker games were played at an Encino mansion Arenas owned,&#8221; ABC investigator Mike Levine reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_p890g5dur\">One of the other five members is a &#8220;suspected high-level member of an Israeli transnational organized crime group,&#8221; Levine added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_22phqu7sp\"><a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-cdca\/pr\/former-nba-star-suspected-israeli-crime-figure-arrested-federal-indictment-alleging\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arenas&#8217;s counts include<\/a> one on &#8220;conspiracy to operate an illegal gambling business,&#8221; one on actually operating that illegal gambling business and one on making false statements to the federal investigators. Arenas will be arraigned on Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_qkj66wmt6\">The Department of Justice released an official statement regarding the arresting of Arenas and the five other people.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some sports-related DOJ news <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@CBSNews<\/a>: Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas and 5 others have been arrested today on charges of operating an illegal gambling\/poker ring. Release from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TheJusticeDept<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billessayli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@billessayli<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qwegoWEJMM\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/qwegoWEJMM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 jake rosen (@JakeMRosen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JakeMRosen\/status\/1950620517599252734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_8vyo7ua54\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA on Sports Illustrated<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas was arrested on Wednesday, along with five others, on a federal indictment alleging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-35018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}