In my mind if you actually win, unlikely to get paid and high likelyhood that loser goes to his parents, which is what happen in this case.
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Another arrest in high school gambling
By Jeff Coen
Tribune staff reporter
Published March 13, 2006, 8:11 PM CST
For the second time in less than a week, Cook County authorities say they have broken up a gambling operation that targeted students at a Catholic high school in Chicago.
Several students at Mt. Carmel High School on the South Side placed bets with an alleged bookie this year, investigators said Monday.
Cook County prosecutors have charged Timothy Quinlan, 23, of Oak Lawn with syndicated gambling, alleging he had two students acting as runners for him at the school.
One student built up a tab of $17,000 and two others were each in debt $10,000, betting mostly on college basketball, prosecutors said.
Late last week Cook County state's attorneys accused another man, Daniel Dalzell, 22, of targeting students at Marist High School and St. Rita High School in Chicago. Two of those students racked up a debt of $27,000 before authorities stepped in.
Prosecutors said Quinlan met one of the teens who acted as a runner for him when the student was visiting a friend at Western Illinois University. It is unclear why Quinlan was at the school.
Quinlan allegedly told the teen he was a bookie and asked him if he wanted to gamble. Quinlan then offered the teen a cut of money won from students at Mt. Carmel.
"He was offered 10 percent of what the bettors lost," said Assistant State's Atty. Russ Baker.
Baker said that student and another runner then recruited four other students to place bets. All six began to wager through Quinlan, who allegedly had set up two phone lines and a Web site to distribute information on odds and point spreads.
The scheme came to light after one of the students grew nervous, authorities said.
"When one of the victims was told by the defendant that he was going to pass the debt on to someone else for collection, the students told their parents what was going on," said Marcy Jensen, a spokeswoman for Cook County State's Atty. Richard Devine.
That was about the time the state's attorney's office and the Cook County sheriff's police were beginning to investigate the Marist and St. Rita group, which involved 10 upperclassmen.
Investigators said Catholic schools in the area had started to put out word of what had occurred at those two schools when Mt. Carmel officials learned of the students gambling through Quinlan.
Investigators initially considered the possibility the two operations were related but have decided that they were not.
Administrators from Mt. Carmel, 6410 S. Dante Ave., referred questions on the situation to the school's principal, Rev. Carl Markelz, who could not immediately be reached for comment.
Criminal Court Judge Thomas Hennelly ordered Quinlan held in lieu of $50,000 bail.
Quinlan's lawyer, Matthew Walsh, declined to comment on the case. A man at Quinlan's address who identified himself as his father also declined to comment, except to say the charges are out of character for Quinlan, who is a college graduate with no criminal history.
Both Quinlan and Dalzell, the son of the chief of the Alsip Police Department, are set to reappear in court March 31.
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Another arrest in high school gambling
By Jeff Coen
Tribune staff reporter
Published March 13, 2006, 8:11 PM CST
For the second time in less than a week, Cook County authorities say they have broken up a gambling operation that targeted students at a Catholic high school in Chicago.
Several students at Mt. Carmel High School on the South Side placed bets with an alleged bookie this year, investigators said Monday.
Cook County prosecutors have charged Timothy Quinlan, 23, of Oak Lawn with syndicated gambling, alleging he had two students acting as runners for him at the school.
One student built up a tab of $17,000 and two others were each in debt $10,000, betting mostly on college basketball, prosecutors said.
Late last week Cook County state's attorneys accused another man, Daniel Dalzell, 22, of targeting students at Marist High School and St. Rita High School in Chicago. Two of those students racked up a debt of $27,000 before authorities stepped in.
Prosecutors said Quinlan met one of the teens who acted as a runner for him when the student was visiting a friend at Western Illinois University. It is unclear why Quinlan was at the school.
Quinlan allegedly told the teen he was a bookie and asked him if he wanted to gamble. Quinlan then offered the teen a cut of money won from students at Mt. Carmel.
"He was offered 10 percent of what the bettors lost," said Assistant State's Atty. Russ Baker.
Baker said that student and another runner then recruited four other students to place bets. All six began to wager through Quinlan, who allegedly had set up two phone lines and a Web site to distribute information on odds and point spreads.
The scheme came to light after one of the students grew nervous, authorities said.
"When one of the victims was told by the defendant that he was going to pass the debt on to someone else for collection, the students told their parents what was going on," said Marcy Jensen, a spokeswoman for Cook County State's Atty. Richard Devine.
That was about the time the state's attorney's office and the Cook County sheriff's police were beginning to investigate the Marist and St. Rita group, which involved 10 upperclassmen.
Investigators said Catholic schools in the area had started to put out word of what had occurred at those two schools when Mt. Carmel officials learned of the students gambling through Quinlan.
Investigators initially considered the possibility the two operations were related but have decided that they were not.
Administrators from Mt. Carmel, 6410 S. Dante Ave., referred questions on the situation to the school's principal, Rev. Carl Markelz, who could not immediately be reached for comment.
Criminal Court Judge Thomas Hennelly ordered Quinlan held in lieu of $50,000 bail.
Quinlan's lawyer, Matthew Walsh, declined to comment on the case. A man at Quinlan's address who identified himself as his father also declined to comment, except to say the charges are out of character for Quinlan, who is a college graduate with no criminal history.
Both Quinlan and Dalzell, the son of the chief of the Alsip Police Department, are set to reappear in court March 31.
