{"id":228406,"date":"2026-03-31T10:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228406\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:32:15","slug":"corpus-christi-crime-news-founder-arrested-for-second-time-accused-of-gambling-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228406\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi Crime News Founder Arrested for Second Time, Accused of Gambling Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The controversial founder of a social media-driven news outlet focused on crime, breaking news, and community issues in Corpus Christi, Texas, is accused of gambling promotion and maintaining a gambling place. \u00a0This is his second arrest in so many months.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eric Tunchez’s relies heavily on Facebook and Instagram to report on local area news. \u00a0He refers to himself as a digital creator. A website linked on the Corpus Christi Cr\u00f3nica goes to a “Secure Connection Failed” page, at least at the time of this article was going to press. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The Corpus Christi Cr\u00f3nica claims to be “dedicated to building and empowering our community through interactive communication”.<\/p>\n

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Tunchez was charged early Sunday morning with an intent\/know operate game room violation, gambling promotion, keeping a gambling place, and possession of a gambling device.<\/p>\n

He was last arrested in May of last year with a felony charge of engaging in organized criminal activity and four misdemeanor charges related to operating a game room called Lucky Panda following an intensive months long investigation. \u00a0 Tunchez was being held in the San Patricio County Jail immediately following his arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

State Jail Felony for engaging in organized criminal activity ($25,000 bond)Misdemeanor for intentionally or knowingly operating a game room ($10,000 bond)Misdemeanor for gambling promotion ($10,000 bond)Misdemeanor for possession of gambling device paraphernalia ($10,000 bond)Misdemeanor for keeping a gambling place ($10,000 bond)<\/p>\n

At the time of his May arrest, 145 gaming machines were seized along with $25,000 in cash. \u00a0Dozens of patrons were cited, and employees were arrested.<\/p>\n

These crimes are commonly charged as a State Jail Felony or 3rd-Degree Felony depending on facts with the latter potentially resulting in up to 10 years prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tunchez claimed the May arrest was \u201cpolitically motivated, designed to silence my voice\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI will not be silenced, and I will not back down.\u201d<\/p>\n

No further details are known about Sunday’s arrest. \u00a0Gambling911.com will continue to monitor this matter and provide updates once available.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nagesh Rath, Gambling911.com\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The controversial founder of a social media-driven news outlet focused on crime, breaking news, and community issues in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[88332,155,157,156,88331],"class_list":["post-228406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-accused-of-gambling-violations","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-gambling911-com-corpus-christi-crime-news-founder-arrested-for-second-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}