{"id":165497,"date":"2026-04-14T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165497\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:29:09","slug":"west-pittston-man-charged-with-cheating-at-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165497\/","title":{"rendered":"West Pittston man charged with cheating at casino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A West Pittston man has been charged with cheating while playing cards at Mohegan Pennsylvania last week, according to state police.<\/p>\n<p>John Joseph Rubino, 27, is accused of \u201cpinching\u201d his bets, or removing chips after realizing he had a losing hand, while playing blackjack at the Plains Twp. casino early the morning of April 10.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers with the Bureau of Gaming Enforcement allege Rubino cheated the casino out of $95 during several hands of play.<\/p>\n<p>Rubino is charged with misdemeanor counts of reducing a gaming loss by fraud, receiving stolen property and other gaming violations.<\/p>\n<p>Court records indicated he had not been arraigned on the charges as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A West Pittston man has been charged with cheating while playing cards at Mohegan Pennsylvania last week, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,182,803,139,28,7513,178,180,179,802],"class_list":{"0":"post-165497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-luzerne-county","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-plains-township","14":"tag-scranton","15":"tag-scranton-headlines","16":"tag-scranton-news","17":"tag-top-stories-cvc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}