UGA Bookie Pleads Guilty: Ran Betting Business From Campus Apartment
Published on:
May/31/2016
A University of Georgia student has plead guilty for bookmaking on the college’s Athens campus.
Brad Kirschner entered the plea agreement with the Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney Office whereby a felony charge will be dropped provided the 22-year-old Economics major from Atlanta completes a pretrial diversion program.
Campus police arrested Kirschner and another student last June following an investigation begun six months earlier. The bookie business was alleged to have operated from a campus apartment.
It was not immediately known how much money Kirschner took in as a bookmaker.
Georgia does consider aggravated gambling (facilitating of bookmaker) a felony, though such cases are especially rare.
- Don Shapiro, Gambling911.com
