Fairfax SWAT team raids high stakes Great Falls poker game, seizes cash, terrifies players

[clevfan]

Fairfax SWAT team raids high stakes Great Falls poker game, seizes cash, terrifies players - The Washington Post

[coolbreez72]

Wow. I feel so much safer now that the SWAT team went in and ended that High Stakes Poker Game. So Foolish!

[Fantasy Cwissy]

Did they kill anybody like last time?

[Fantasy Cwissy]

Should have said it.

The regular player said the police told him, “The reason we’re here is there are Asian gangs targeting these games,” and it’s certainly true that some private gambling events in Fairfax County have been robbed by nefarious elements. The player said he wanted to respond, “So you robbed us first,” but he did not.

[Fantasy Cwissy]

Pig.

One of the players was not charged because he was waiting for a seat. As he was walking out, the regular said that player was told by Detective David Baucom that he was not charged “because you hadn’t bought in.”

Baucom was also the detective who had been making football bets with Culosi in 2005 and early 2006, and then made the request for a SWAT team to help him serve a search warrant and arrest Culosi, though the optometrist had no criminal record and no known weapons. Culosi walked out to Baucom’s vehicle in his socks, handed Baucom his winnings, and Baucom signaled for his SWAT backup. Bullock pulled up, climbed out of his SUV and said the door banged him on his left side, causing him to involuntarily pull the trigger and shoot Culosi once in the chest. The killing cost Fairfax taxpayers $2 million to pay a settlement of the Culosi family’s wrongful death suit.