CONCORD, N.H. --Federal court records show that authorities appear to have cracked a sports-betting and drug-dealing ring based in Salem and northern Massachusetts.
Carey Hamilton, of Methuen, Mass., is charged with running the gambling operation, which investigators say covered more than $800,000 worth of wagers in the fall and winter of 1999-2000. Hamilton also is accused of dealing bulk amounts of Ecstasy.
An affidavit filed last year by Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Todd Prough names several other individuals believed to have been involved in the ring, including a Massachusetts lawyer who advised members of the group.
Hamilton was first arrested in 2006, and was later released to Proughs custody while he cooperated with the investigation, court records show. The case against Hamilton remained sealed until last week, after federal prosecutors got indictments charging him with distributing Ecstasy and running an illegal gambling operation.
On Monday, a U.S. District Court magistrate judge ordered that Hamilton remain jailed while awaiting trial, which has yet to be scheduled.
The case against him appears to be based largely on gambling ledgers and the testimony of three informants, one of whom claims to have sold marijuana and Ecstasy to Hamilton while working for another dealer in the 1990s, and two others who claim to have worked for Hamilton, taking bets and dealing drugs.
All three informants gave investigators information about both the alleged drug-dealing and gambling aspects of Hamiltons business. The affidavit also names at least one other alleged bookie, and several alleged associates of Hamilton, some of whom were arrested by Salem police.
The informant told Prough that Hamilton began buying marijuana in the mid-1990s, and quickly moved from taking several pounds to several hundred pounds a week. Hamilton later began buying Ecstasy, the informant said.
The informant also told investigators that he frequently saw Hamilton taking sports bets over the phone, and a second informant, who was convicted on marijuana charges, told of working for Hamiltons gambling operation, Prough wrote.
The second informant estimated that the bets he or she recorded for Hamilton, mostly from about 10 regular customers, resulted in profit ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 a week, and the informant identified several other people who also took bets for Hamilton, Prough wrote. Those individuals, while named in Proughs affidavit, have not been charged.
The informant provided ledgers from 1997 and 1998 that showed "hundreds of thousands of dollars of sports wagers being placed" through that informant, Prough wrote.
The ledgers showed betting on collegiate and professional football, basketball, professional hockey, and professional baseball, Prough wrote, adding that Hamilton employed five agents, and served roughly 100 bettors.
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