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| RIO DE JANEIRO – Police on Monday afternoon seized more than 220 Christmas Gift Baskets that were to be distributed to players and “pointers” in the numbers racket. Authorities were tipped off to the house on Rua Carlos de Oliveira, where the gift baskets were found, in the Rio de Janeiro suburb of Abolition.
Christmas Gift Baskets (Photo: G1 RJ)
According to the police spokesman, Rivaldo Barbosa, of the 24th Precinct (Piedade), in addition to seizing gift baskets, they also made an arrest at the house where, they allege, bets were taken. Guarding the gift baskets was a suspect who was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor.
He said that an investigation will be initiated into the case with the goal of identifying those involved in the illegal activity and bringing them to justice.
“We will also ask the court to release the gift baskets to the Department of Social Welfare of the city government, so they can be given to those in need,” he told G1 RJ.
”Pointers,” explained the spokesman, are those who take bets in the street for the numbers rackets.
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