Ex-fire captain pleads guilty in gambling case

Published January 27, 2014 11:26pm ET



SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Posing as debt collectors, undercover federal agents headed to a Los Angeles County firehouse in 2011 to meet with a man suspected of illegally moving millions of dollars through an offshore sports gambling enterprise.

The man was a fire captain stationed in the scandal-plagued city of Bell, and authorities said he appeared to be at least partly operating his piece of the Costa Rica-based online sportsbook on duty.

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