Cleveland Poker Dealer Accused Of Trying To Cheat By Putting Card Up His SleeveMan Asserts That It Wasn't Cheating, Just A 'Fluke' |
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A poker dealer at the Horseshoe Casino Cleveland has been indicted for allegedly cheating by hiding a card up his sleeve, though he claims that it was an accident and prosecutors haven’t provided information about why he would have tried to cheat.
Robert D. Brown, 57, was indicted by a Cuyahoga County grand jury late last week for the alleged crime that took place during his shift on Sept. 6, according to a report from Cleveland.com.
According to the report, Brown was indicted with prosecutors not yet providing a motive for his alleged actions. A local Fox affiliate spoke to Brown, who said that the whole situation is a misunderstanding.
“A card accidentally went up my sleeve. I deal poker, I don’t even know how it got there,” he said.
Brown claimed that he called attention to the missing card as soon as the automatic shuffler machine’s red light indicated that the deck was light. “I called my supervisor over, and we’re looking every—we looked for ten, fifteen minutes," Brown said. "We lift up the rail; we looked on the floor; we lifted up the shuffler trying to find this card.”
Brown said that he eventually moved to another table to deal and the missing card apparently fell out of his work uniform when he was reaching to the ground to pick up a piece of trash.
“Somehow it was on me," he added. "They’re saying it was on my sleeve; I don’t even know where it was but they’re saying it was up my sleeve and it fell out.”
It’s unclear if there is video evidence of Brown putting the card into his uniform.
An unverified user comment on the Cleveland.com article said the card was a 7.
Brown has been suspended from work and is due in court Nov. 13.
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