Lower than per week in the past, poker participant Jordan Saccucci, who gained practically $1 million for taking down the 2022 European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague Predominant Occasion, was arrested in Ontario, Canada in reference to a theft spree that included greater than 30 residential properties.
The 33-year-old is seemingly out on bond as he was noticed, and confirmed through a registration checklist, to be competing on Day 1b of the 2023 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) Paradise Predominant Occasion.
Nonetheless, his keep was short-lived not due to working out of chips, however as a result of he was faraway from the property on the Atlantis Paradise Island On line casino’s discretion, a choice WSOP employees abided by. The precise purpose for his removing, and whether or not or not it was related to his authorized state of affairs, was not made obtainable.
Saccucci was arrested on December 5 by Halton Regional Police in Oakville alongside one other suspect, 41-year-old Dumark Lindsay. A press launch said that each males “have been held in custody pending a bail listening to in Milton.”
PokerNews has reached out to the Halton Regional Police Service Company Communications to inquire on the bail listening to, however the workplace is closed on the weekend.
The arrests got here per week after authorities raised the residences of 4 totally different suspects, together with Saccucci. The arrested pair have been charged with 68 offenses, and for Saccucci it isn’t his first time in hassle with the legislation.
Again in March 2021, he was one in every of ten individuals arrested for a separate breaking-and-entering Toronto crime spree that spanned from 2020 into 2021, and media studies point out his panache for break-ins went way back to 2015.
Saccucci gained the EPT Prague Predominant Occasion in December 2022 for over $900,000, beating French professional Antoine Saout heads up. He has $1,366,000 in reside match cashes courting again to 2016, in line with The Hendon Mob. The Canadian poker participant additionally has two deep runs in World Poker Tour (WPT) occasions, together with a ninth-place end for $27,856 on the 2016 WPT Fallsview Poker Basic.
Regardless of the intense nature of his crimes, Saccucci has made his approach right down to the Bahamas to proceed taking part in poker, one thing Canadian authorities would possibly be mindful when he has his day in court docket.
The Alleged Crime Spree
In keeping with native studies, Saccucci and three others — Marcel Blackburn (37), Dumark Lindsay (41), and Paul Nkrumah (36) — robbed a number of properties sporting surgical masks and hoods, generally throughout the daytime. If confronted, the alleged crooks apparently claimed they have been on the dwelling for development or landscaping functions.
Police raided the properties of the suspects on Nov. 21 the place they found and recovered “quite a few” stolen objects from the victims’ properties.
The suspects reportedly parked their black Chevrolet Tahoe RST within the driveway of the sufferer’s property earlier than approaching the house throughout an invasion try. That car was additionally seized throughout their arrests and was found to be stolen with pretend plates.
On December 8, the Halton Regional Police Service introduced that the ultimate suspect within the investigation, Marcel Blackburn (38), was arrested in Oakville and likewise “charged with 69 Break and Enter associated offences and one breach of probation cost.”
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