A husband, his wife and her mother were among four people arrested in an undercover bust of a Hialeah business involved in illegal gambling and money laundering, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office and Florida Highway Patrol had launched the investigation this past October into Royal Arcade Corp. at 5440 W. 16th Avenue, arrest reports said.<\/p>\n
According to the reports, detectives made multiple undercover visits to the business to gamble and found 60-plus electronic gaming machines inside.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, deputies and troopers executed a search warrant at the business and arrested the owner, 43-year-old Reyson Morales Monroy, and three people who were working there, including his wife and mother-in-law.<\/p>\n
Financial records showed Monroy’s reported earnings from the arcade for 2025 were $43,000, which was inconsistent with bank records showing deposits of over $926,000 and withdrawals of over $1 million, the reports said.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Monroy made cash deposits at multiple bank branches to avoid triggering mandatory reporting thresholds.<\/p>\n
Monroy is facing charges including money laundering, gambling, bookmaking, keeping a gambling house, and possession of a gambling device.<\/p>\n
His wife, 42-year-old Elaine Moreno-Noa, her mother, 61-year-old Carmen Noa-Pantaleon, and an employee, 29-year-old Cary Eliany Duenas-Villaverde, face charges including gambling, bookmaking, keeping a gambling house, and possession of a gambling device, records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A husband, his wife and her mother were among four people arrested in an undercover bust of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-243772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}