Police in Mabalacat City, Pampanga, have arrested eight people who were allegedly involved in illegal gambling activities related to cockfighting games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Philippines.-\u00a0Eight people have been arrested\u00a0in Mabalacat <\/strong>city in Pampanga province for allegedly participating in an illegal cockfighting match. Police say they found people placing bets during a cockfighting match in a backyard. Officers seized money, seven live roosters, a dead rooster and a gaffe fragment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Officers are preparing charges for suspected violations of Republic Act 9287.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A few days ago,\u00a0police in Manila<\/a>\u00a0arrested three people as part of a series of operations following President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s\u00a0ban on e-sabong operations<\/a>. Those arrested are accused of operating a website that offered e-sabong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Police seized computer desktops, cellphones, three local area network routers and money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police in Mabalacat City, Pampanga, have arrested eight people who were allegedly involved in illegal gambling activities related to cockfighting games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Philippine authorities in Mabalacat City and Manila have arrested eleven individuals in separate operations targeting illegal gambling. Eight were apprehended for participating in an illegal cockfighting match, while three others were arrested for operating an unlicensed e-sabong website, following President Duterte's ban on such online operations.","focusai_entities":"President Rodrigo Duterte","focusai_location":"Mabalacat City, Pampanga, Manila, Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"E-sabong ban impact?","query":"What is the broader impact of President Duterte's e-sabong ban on the Philippine iGaming landscape, particularly concerning the migration of players to regulated verticals or other illicit channels?"},{"label":"Regulatory enforcement trends?","query":"How do these recent arrests reflect the current regulatory enforcement priorities and capabilities of Philippine authorities in combating both traditional and online illegal gambling?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-30940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30944,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30940\/revisions\/30944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}