STEUBENVILLE, Ohio

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Steubenville Police and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations staged a major raid on a sports betting ring, in a joint months-long investigation.

Boxes of evidence went into a van earlier this evening, for use in criminal proceedings, which will follow.

Police say they seized piles of cash in this raid.

James Ciotti, Supervisor at the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, said it was an expensive gambling investigation that's been in operation for a period of time. He called it a "standard bookmaking operation."

Steubenville Police Chief William McCafferty said a significant amount of money was seized.

"If that money was put in the economy and taxed properly, it could hire at least four police officers," McCafferty said.

Both Ciotti and McCafferty declined to comment on the methods used in the investigation, which they described as ongoing.

They also said that information would have to wait until the suspects were in court.

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[SixFive]

I guess if you were on the hook it would be good news, but terrible news if u had just crushed the book. No payments are foing to be made either way now I'm guessing.

 

[Dead Money]

Crime in Steubenville

Crime in Steubenville

went back aways, Dean Martin got his start here.

From Wikipedia
Dino Cellini, (November 19, 1914 ? November 2, 1978[1]) ran casinos for New York mobster Meyer Lansky in Havana, Cuba during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Cellini later ran casinos in the Bahamas and the United Kingdom.


Dino Vicente Cellini, is the son of an Italian barber who immigrated to the U.S. Cellini had three brothers, Edward, Goffredo & Bobby, and a sister Julia. Cellini grew up in the steel mill town of Steubenville, Ohio during the Depression years. As a youngster, Cellini worked at Rex's Cigar Store as a dice/craps casino dealer and croupier with singer Dean Martin, then known as Dean (Dino) Crocetti.

Career in Gambling[edit]
During this era, many cigar stores in Steubenville were fronts for mob rackets; bookmaking, numbers, pool, illegal drinking, and illegal gambling rackets. Steel mill workers from Steubenville and nearby Youngstown, Ohio would frequent these stores after their shifts, spending their meager paychecks for this entertainment. Craps and Barboot, a Greek dice game, were the games of choice at these places. The gambling halls would hire "mechanics", specialists in manipulating the dice and cheating, to police their craps games. The mechanic would ward off undesirable customers, break winning streaks of lucky customers, and hustle those with lots of money to lose. Cellini was known for his talent with dice and eventually became the youngest "bust out" man in Steubenville.

As a later associate of Santo Trafficante, Sr. and Meyer Lansky, Cellini ran the mob-backed Riviera Casino and Tropicana Club in Havana, Cuba. In 1959, the Cuban Revolution overthrew the Batista regime. The new Cuban president, Fidel Castro, closed all the casinos and forced the American mobsters, including Cellini, to leave the country.

Jimmy the Greek was also born here....