There has been a terrible loss for the online casinos. Last week, a middle aged mad took his life. In his note, he states that his debt to gambling has grown so big that he could not tae it anymore. Online casinos have become very popular in the past ten years. There has been a lot of controversy over the legality of it but they have prevailed. Now with this tragic loss what will become of the online casinos?

 

Alex, a man in his late forties who lived in Nevada has committed suicide by gun shot in the evening. He was a divorcee who moved to the state about three years ago. He worked in a moving company, and when he did not show up for work, the boss called, but found no answer. A friend from the company decided to stop by his place to check up on him and found no answer. After a few hours, people got worried and called the police. His co worker John says “He was always so nervous and timid. When he didn’t show for work or wasn’t at home, I got worried because it wasn’t like him. He was also in such an awful mood this last past weeks that I knew something was bothering him. He left a suicide note and in the note he claims that he owned over ten thousand dollars to various online casinos and the pressure has been enormous.

 

But his family claims that he had other problems besides gambling at online casinos. His ex wife Sue says “Alex had a mood disorder. He was so elated one week and depressed for the next month. After a while, it became a big problem and one of the reasons we are divorced. He also loved to gamble at online casinos, floor casinos even bookies. It just became too much for me.” His debt was enormous at online casinos but who else did he owe money to? As his compulsion with gambling surfaces, one must wonder if he ventured to gamble with more serous people that online casinos. Living in Nevada, it is unlawful for residents to gamble at online casinos. Most residents have absolutely no clue that such a law exists but it does. Online casinos have been under surveillance and many law enforcement just decide not to charge residents if the crime until the bill becomes federal.

 

Most online casinos are owned by people outside of the United States and here is the problem with charging them with a crime. Online casinos abide by their own countries rules and do not need to abide by the US government. The government, if needed, can charge the gamblers of online casinos thus creating an example of those that play. But the government has yet to do this. Another bill has been presented to congress in hopes of banning online casinos. Ten other bills have tried to do the same thing to online casinos and have fail. Will this one?

Officially, playing in online casinos is illegal in Indiana. According to the Indiana laws, someone who knowingly engages in online gambling activities will be charged with a Class B misdemeanor, which means a $1,000 fine and up to a 180 days imprisonment. However, the law is not being enforced and despite the threat of the punishment, many people, and especially students, play in the thousands online casinos available on the internet.

 

One of these players is Ryan Sweeney, a junior history major. He plays in online casinos a couple of times a week, just like many other students, but the University Police Department, hasn't arrested any one yet. Sweeney plays in different online casinos and stops playing when he makes a decent profit or breaks even. Sweeney states that playing in online casinos shouldn't be prohibited. He believes that people over 18 should decide for themselves, how to spend their money play online casino | online currency trading, forex | online sportsbook.

 

The Director of Public Safety, Gene Burton, said that their haven't been any cases where the police arrested people for playing in online casinos, so police officers wouldn't really now how to handle a situation like this. Burton believes that the police should discuss the law on online casinos with the prosecutor's office to know how to charge the students if they would be arrested.

 

The attorney at Law for Student Legal Services, John Connor, states that playing in online casinos is just like any other crime. He explains that the police should have probable cause to be able to investigate or arrest someone that plays in online casinos. According to Conner, the police should get a warrant from a judge regarding unlawful gambling. Connor thinks that the police didn't make any arrests because they are using their resources to enforce more serious risks than online gambling.

 

Sgt. Brian Olehy is a spokesperson for the Public Information Office for the Indiana State Police. According to Olehy, the Indiana State Police had made not a single arrest on grounds of unlawful online gambling. Olehy claims that there haven't been any arrests because the law that prohibits playing in online casinos is very new (the law was enacted on July 1, 2005). He also believes that the numbers of the local police force could be different to the numbers of the state police.

 

Olehy explains that there are three ways someone could be arrested for playing in online casinos; 1. The police received a tip 2. A person is caught in the act of playing in online casinos 3. Someone is caught for child pornography and after searching the computer, the police find evidence of online gambling.

 

Indiana Representative Charlie Brown is the co-author of House Bill 1042. This bill would have made playing in online casinos legal again. Brown wants to legalize online gambling in order to increase revenue in the state of Indiana. The reason why the bill didn't pass was probably that there was no clear way to enforce the online casinos.