According to the Des Moines Register, a nineteen year old student from Iowa University has been indicted by the region's police for illegal gambling; being alleged that he was playing with eight hundred dollar pots in prohibited Texas Hold'em poker games. The Iowa City home of Jonathon Koch, according to police officials, was dedicated to gambling illegally, and on the main floor, basement and garage he had poker tables arranged everywhere. The police claimed that during the poker games Koch acted as banker. He is charged on two counts of prohibited gambling which include, felonies of class D which could convict up to a five year prison sentence and bear fines of seven thousand five hundred dollars, and two counts for maintaining a house for gambling, significant felonies bearing a one thousand five hundred dollar state fine and up to one year prison sentence. Charges for four individual drug counts also were his lot when police claimed that one pound of marijuana was revealed as well as stuff for distribution as well as cash to the sum of one thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Events at the beginning of the week resulted in these charges, when police made a search of Koch's home, and when a detective, in February, participated there in one of the poker games. Johnson County Jail now holds Koch on cash bond of twenty five thousand dollars. In all, his total fines add up to thirty eight thousand dollars and up twenty four years in prison. Although he possesses a seventy thousand dollar BMW, according to court records, Koch does not work, and owns a two thousand dollar motor scooter as well as jewelry to the value of twenty five thousand dollars. Posted on: May 17, 2007
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