Sportsbook article in Costa Rica Newpaper, Nacion

[clevfan]

One again, this is a badly translated version of an article in today's paper:


Case Best Line Sports

Exconvicto is owner of house of bets
• Company/signature processed associate operations to gangster

Giannina Segnini and Ernesto Creek
erivera@nacion.com
gsegnini@nacion.com
Editors of the Nation


Exconvicto New York investigated by the Police of Rochester, New York, is one of both partners of the company Best Line Sports S.A., that, from an office in the Mall San Pedro, processed the bets of an associate to the Mafia.
The outsider is Frederick Norman Kelch, known with the alias Jimmy or Fred, of 42 years, and who has an ample criminal file in Florida, the United States, from the years setentas.



This document, of which the Nation has copy, enumerates robberies with mulberry levelling of and illegal possession of firearm, among other positions.



Kelch has been living for two years in a condominium in Tibás and was indicated by the lawyer Carlos the Aryan Chamberlains like one of the two people who bought the society to him Best Line Sports, the 5 of August of the 2001.



The American, of Italian origin, refused to give to declarations previous Friday when he was boarded by an equipment of this newspaper, in the outskirts of the apartment.



Single it expressed, in English: "You don't know me" (You do not know me...), after which it approached a vehicle color came.



Documents contributed by Chamberlain confirmed at the moment that the other partner of Best Line Sports is Joseph Junior Fafone, in freedom on one's word.



Fafone Junior was accused of illegal bets in Broward, Florida, along with its father of the same name, and known like Joe Mouth, that is imprisoned in Florida accused of illegal bet and drug traffic.



To the this last American authorities they describe it as the right hand as a member of the gangster family Gambino, of New York.



The last year the Fafone, father and son, and the gangster Frank the Coarse Bear was the targets of an operation concealed against the organized crime made by the police of Florida, which denominated "Goodfellas" (Good boys).



After an investigation made in Costa Rica and Florida, the Nation revealed previous Sunday the ramifications of the Fafone in Costa Rica and the way in which they operated from the fifth floor of the Mall San Pedro.



To it the identification of Kelch like one of the owners of this company is added now who used the Fafone to conduct their operations here.




Under monitoring
Tie sources to Best Line Sports identified to Kelch like one of the owners of that company/signature.



An investigation of this newspaper verified that Kelch and Fafone Junior were object of telephone interventions made by the Police of Rochester.



In an interview with the Nation, the New York detective Charles Dominic confirmed that the intervention of telephone calls revealed details of the business of bets that both lead in New York and Florida through Best Line Sports.



The investigation solely allowed to accuse Fafone Junior, that declared culprit.



Against Kelch cause in New York by illegal bets did not begin because it had his operational base in Florida.



But Dominic agent requested to the police of Hallandale Beach, Florida, to smooth the apartment of Kelch in that city.



In the operative one, the 28 of March of the 2000, the special police and the Swat equipment seized tablets of Alprazolam (relajante muscular) and a revolver calibrates 38 that could not carry due to its condition of exconvicto.



Kelch declared culprit in that cause and was frees. The 12 of October of that year register their first enter Costa Rica.



Here, Kelch and Fafone Junior initiated in the Mall San Pedro an operation to take the bets from the clients who obtained in Rochester, Florida, and other cities of the United States.



For it, they used three Costa Rican companies: Bulma the International S.A., that has to its name several telephone lines; Best Line Sports S.A., commercial name that appear in its page of Internet, and Properties Coffer of the South S.A., that rents to the space in the fifth floor of the Mall San Pedro to the BetOnSports company, well-known like Basket, and an apartment in the Yoses.

Fred Kelch: "You do not know me"
Giannina Segnini and Ernesto Creek
gsegnini@nacion.com
erivera@nacion.com
Editors of the Nation







"You do not know me", was the only phrase that Frederick Norman Kelch said before raising its vehicle in the outskirts of its apartment in Tibás, when he was boarded by an equipment of this newspaper.

Who yes know it are the American authorities, since Jimmy Kelch was single 17 years old when it was arrested for the first time in New York, in 1977.



Its criminal record in the FBI (Federal Office of Investigations) needs that three years later it was arrested again by assault and that, in 1983, the police captured when attributing to him a robbery in a building.



By that position it received and it fulfilled a sentence of four years.



Kelch obtained its freedom in 1987 on one's word, but six years later - in 1993- it returned to the jail by the same crime.



Other smaller causes, like leading in state of ebriedad, possession of illegal substances and firearms, are in the file.



Between years 2000 and 2002 agents of the police of New York and Miami they investigated his bonds with Joseph Fafone Junior, who faces a cause to operate "sportsbook" (house of bets) in Costa Rica.



According to tie sources to Best Line Sports, the operation of Fafone Junior and Kelch in Costa Rica, it uses near 30 people.



Kelch, of 42 years, has a son of Italian nationality that arrived at Costa Rica with him, and lives in an apartment that the society Properties Coffer of the South rented in the Yoses.

[clevfan]

Sniper suspect's past raises plenty of questions for officials

May 26, 2008
By Elise Sonray
and the A.M. Costa Rica staff


The case of the U.S. citizen accused of killing his neighbor in a sniper spree Thursday night seems to have plenty of blame to go around.

The suspect, Frederick Norman Kelch, 48, came out of his house after nine hours of negotiations and turned himself over to judicial agents Friday morning.

But this was not the first time Kelch would make Costa Rican headlines. The research is still incomplete because Costa Rica officials are hard to reach on the weekend, but it appears that Kelch had a history of contact with the Mafia.

He seems to have been living in San Vicente de Moravía on an expired tourist visa. Jorge Rojas, director of the Judicial Investigating Organization, confirmed Friday that Kelch has lived here for eight years.

But what Rojas did not say is that the man was profiled in a La Nación news story in January 2003 for administering an illegal bookmaking operation and possible Mafia ties.
Rojas did say that Kelch had had previous convictions in New York State on charges of drug possession and robbery with a firearm.

Rojas added however, that the Judicial Investigation Organization had never received complaints from neighbors or had they received reports that Kelch had previously fired a gun in the area. Neighbors say they have filed complaints but no investigators came to talk to them.

Had Rojas consulted the La Nación article he would also have learned that Kelch had been investigated for running an illegal bookmaking operation with Joseph “Junior” Fafone in Rochester New York. Kelch also ran a gambling operation in the San Pedro Mall with Fafone, according to the article.

Fafone and his father, also Joseph, were associates of one of the leading members of the Gambino crime family, according to a Broward, Florida, sheriff's report in 2003.

“Both face state bookmaking charges for collecting bets and making cash payoffs locally on wagers placed in Costa Rica via toll-free telephone and Internet Web site links. Both Fafones have extensive past criminal records,” according to the sheriff's report.

La Nación also said Kelch had extensive convictions in the state of Florida and New York, for crimes such as house robberies, possession of a firearm by a convict, and drug possession.

A.M. Costa Rica at the time published a wire service story that was based in part on the La Nación disclosures.

The key questions did not come up at the Rojas press conference. He did not address why Kelch had been allowed to stay in the country while working on a tourist visa. His prior convictions would seem to make him ineligible for any form of residency.

A report after the shooting said that Kelch was here on a tourist visa that expired in April. This would suggest that the man has made repeated trips out of the country or availed himself of some of the fake immigration stamps that are so prevalent in the sportsbook and online gambling business.

Many foreign "tourists" are working with the tacit approval of the Costa Rican government.

Agents say that Kelch used a semi-automatic rifle to shoot from his rooftop in Moravía and kill a neighbor.

The shooting took place at about 11 p.m. Friday when a masked man climbed onto a rooftop in Vicente de Moravía and fired an AR-15 rifle, riddling the neighborhood with bullets. One of the bullets struck Harlen Fonseca Reyes, 28, a neighbor and a young physician, in the head. The sniper seemed to be shooting off rounds with no direction, said Rojas Friday, but added that investigators were still not sure.

Rojas said that he was concerned about where the sniper had obtained such a dangerous weapon, and that was one of the things being investigated.

[Mr Falcone]

Shit Clevfan,

Read the other day about this sniper, and had thought \i knew the name, but it didnt register, thanks for the refresh.

Truley a tragic story......

Rojas said that he was concerned about where the sniper had obtained such a dangerous weapon, and that was one of the things being investigated

Lot of Nica's have access to these and AK 47's, not that hard to optain really if ya got the quid.

[Mr Falcone]

Another reason dont mind sending the boy and \Ex back to the States for him to finish High School next year. This place has changed for the worse since I got here back in 1990 for sure.

That and at 16, he pretty much thinks this place blows, but that has more to do with getting a liscens here at 18 vs 16 there I think...LOL

Violence Rates are Up in Costa Rica

[Mr Falcone]

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