{"id":16769,"date":"2025-09-11T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16769\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:58:07","slug":"criminals-a-gambler-jumped-off-a-cruise-ship-to-avoid-his-debt-and-now-94-5-the-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16769\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminals: A Gambler Jumped Off a Cruise Ship to Avoid His Debt, and Now&#8230; | 94.5 The Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Gambler Jumped Off a Cruise Ship to Avoid His Debt, and Now Owes 15 Times as Much.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a bad gambler . . . you&#8217;re probably a bad criminal too.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A man jumped off a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in Puerto Rico last weekend, because he wanted to skip out on a gambling debt of $16,710.24 that he&#8217;d run up at the casino on the ship.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was caught on surveillance camera jumping into the water near the shore, where he was picked up by people on jet skis.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The authorities didn&#8217;t have any trouble tracking him down.\u00a0He was arrested . . . and is now facing $250,000 in fines, and up to five years in prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, he thought he could slip out on his tab unnoticed, and now he owes around 15-times what he lost at the casino.\u00a0For what it&#8217;s worth, when they found him onshore, he had $14,600 in cash on him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jey-gonzalez-diaz-royal-caribbean-overboard-gambling-debt\/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=859076425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Gambler Jumped Off a Cruise Ship to Avoid His Debt, and Now Owes 15 Times as Much.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[18667,134,13693,18669,554,555,18670,111,139,69,4965,1629,18666,18665,14920,18668],"class_list":{"0":"post-16769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-alternative-rock","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-ktbz","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mentalhealth","14":"tag-morning-show","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-radio","19":"tag-rock","20":"tag-rod-ryan-show","21":"tag-rodryan","22":"tag-texas","23":"tag-the-buzz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}