High-Stakes Poker Player Strikes Deal In Bomb CaseDan Bilzerian Pleads No Contest To Failing To Extinguish A Fire |
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Infamous high-stakes poker player Dan Bilzerian has wiggled himself out of a felony charge in Nevada for detonating a homemade explosive beneath a tractor-trailer cab at an unofficial shooting range outside Las Vegas and supposedly not putting out the resulting fire, the Associated Press reported.
Though he and friend Jeremy Guymon were potentially facing up to 12 years in prison if convicted of the felony charges related to bomb making, Bilzerian resolved the case by agreeing to record a public service announcement for the federal Bureau of Land Management, in which he will advise other people not to do what he did.
The November incident happened on public (federal) land.
Bilzerian reportedly was able to get such a deal because he has a huge following on Instagram and apparently law enforcement thought he would be more useful as a temporary spokesperson. This is the same person who late last year was caught on video apparently kicking a woman in the face at a Miami nightclub. In April of last year, a different women threatened to sue him after he threw her off a roof into a pool and she broke her foot.
Both men didn’t appear in court for the resolution to the Nevada case and instead had their lawyers plead no contest for them to a misdemeanor for failing to extinguish a fire.
They were also fined a combined $20,000.
Even though the men pleaded no contest to failing to extinguish a fire, the AP report stated that the fire they started was quickly contained.
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