26 ARRESTED IN 10-MONTH POKER STING

At first I thought this story about a late-night “raid” on a poker game at a Hanahan home was some kind of lame, late April Fools’ Day joke, but it actually happened. The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, which apparently has absolutely nothing better to do like fight the real crime, said Saturday they had arrested at least 26 people as the result of a 10-month undercover investigation.

The only reason this made news though was because First Circuit Deputy Solicitor Don Sorenson was one of those arrested.

The Charleston County Metro Major Case Unit and Charleston City Police along with the North Charleston and Hanahan police departments raided a house on Friday night at 6916 Tanner Hall Blvd. in Hanahan. The house had been set up as a Las Vegas-style casino, Clark said.

“There were approximately 26 people in the residence last (Friday) night and they were charged by Hanahan police with unlawful games and betting. Twelve of the 26 had outstanding warrants through the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office for unlawful games and betting,” Clark said in the release.

The arrests and search warrants were the culmination of a 10-month undercover investigation that has identified 65 people in the organization. Officers seized more than $40,000 in cash along with a significant amount of gambling paraphernalia. [DIONNE GLEATON - Orangeburg Times and Democrat]

“Gambling paraphernalia”? Do you mean dice or cards or poker chips? Couldn’t you just say dice or cards or poker chips? Is it really necessary to call it “gambling paraphernalia”?

I’m not really sure if there’s even an antiquated time in history that I can reference because I can’t think of another period when poker was outlawed and players were “busted” for partaking. Not even in the middle ages when people were burned alive for predicting that there would be a full moon.

Granted, poker didn’t exist back then, but I’m sure that if it did, they wouldn’t have conducted midnight raids because they had more important things to worry about. Like not getting burned alive for predicting that there would be a full moon.

And, to all the haters who think I was wrong to publish the Nailed casts’ addresses, take a look at what the Times and Democrat did there… they published this guys address. What an outrage! They better get a letter from this guy’s attorney.

Also, I would like to apologize for using that goofy homemade video for the O.A.R. song, but it was the only decent YouTube clip of that song I could find after 30 seconds of searching. And I really didn’t feel like spending any more time that that on this story.