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Austin, Texas is the scene of the latest brazen poker tournament robbery. This one follows just weeks after five bandits raided the EPT Berlin poker event, a robbery that gained international media attention.
From Pokerati.com:
Police say they are hot on the case ... details emerging about the Austin poker game that got robbed EPT-Berlin style (only for less money and with more gunfire) ... and apparently this one - occurring in a middle-class residential neighborhood in northwest Austin - ain't gonna go the way of poker robberies in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and others recently in Austin.
The Travis County Sheriff's Dept. (woking with APD) has caught at least one of the suspected bandits after tracking down a (coincidentally German-made) possible getaway car. Osaro Osagie, 22, is currently in custody on felony charges of credit card abuse, for possessing one of the poker player's stolen cards.
An investigation on the aggravated robbery is still ongoing, and thus police are saying little else at the moment.
This all shook down at a game in near West Anderson Lane and Mopac.
UPDATE: More on the heavily armed robbery from KXAN here.
