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2 Arrested Attemping to Put a Man in a Box of Rattlesnakes, to Settle a Poker Debt

It might make a plausible TV western: two wild-west desperadoes, out to collect a poker debt, plot to get the money by putting their adversary in a box filled with rattlesnakes. But the victim is saved from an excruciating death when deputies detain the wrongdoers.Fortunately for Matthew Sowash, the owner of a company that stages poker games in bars, the alleged plotters turned out to be incompetent.

“It’s a story out of the wild west - there’s poker, rattlesnakes and unsavoury characters,” said Lance Clem, a spokesman for the Colorado bureau of investigation. “The only thing I haven’t heard is someone calling another guy a varmint.” Read the rest of this entry »

Poker loser attempts to shoot his opponents

A disgruntled poker player who was found guilty of attempting to shoot his opponents in 2005 skipped out on $40,000 bail and failed to appear for sentencing Tuesday.

County Judge William S. Kieser issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Harold Hoskins, 45, of 417 Wilson St., after he didn’t show up to be sentenced on two counts each of attempted homicide and robbery and several counts relating to the possession of a firearm and crack cocaine. Read the rest of this entry »