{"id":33625,"date":"2022-09-20T01:20:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T04:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=33625"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:45:58","slug":"philippines-4-arrested-for-illegal-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-4-arrested-for-illegal-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Philippines: 4 arrested for illegal gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Barangay have arrested four people who were allegedly gambling on mahjong<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines.- Police in Barangay Our Lady of Lourdes in the <strong>Jaro district<\/strong> have arrested four people for illegal gambling. Those arrested were identified as Sheryl Joy Yudelmo, 36; Gemma Aquino, 57; Corazon Serbo, 47; and Kestine Pedrosa, 28. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Panay News, they were caught playing mahjong on Saturday afternoon. Police confiscated a set of mahjong tiles and PHP540.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few day ago, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-3-arrested-in-operation-against-illegal-gambling\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-3-arrested-in-operation-against-illegal-gambling\" target=\"_blank\">police in Muntinlupa<\/a> arrested three men and rescued two children during an operation against illegal gambling activities. Those arrested were aged between 29 and 40 years old. Police also seized illegal firearms, ammunition and PHP1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also last week,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-18-arrested-for-illegal-gambling\">police arrested 18 people<\/a>&nbsp;who were allegedly involved in illegal gambling at a resort in Barangay San Rafael in San Pablo, Laguna. Police identified the two people as Jeffry Austria and his partner Shirley Eustaquio. They are said to have had several employees as runners and waiters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Barangay have arrested four people who were allegedly gambling on mahjong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Police in the Philippines have conducted multiple arrests across various locations for illegal gambling activities. Incidents include arrests for mahjong in Jaro district, an operation in Muntinlupa involving illegal firearms, and a raid on a resort in San Pablo, Laguna, targeting a larger illegal gambling operation with alleged employees.","focusai_entities":"Sheryl Joy Yudelmo, Gemma Aquino, Corazon Serbo, Kestine Pedrosa, Jeffry Austria, Shirley Eustaquio","focusai_location":"Philippines, Jaro, Muntinlupa, San Pablo, Laguna","focusai_target_profile":"regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Regulated Market?","query":"What is the estimated GGR impact of persistent illegal gambling operations, such as those highlighted, on the licensed iGaming and land-based casino sectors in the Philippines?"},{"label":"Enforcement Strategy Efficacy?","query":"How do these localized enforcement actions against illegal gambling contribute to the broader regulatory compliance and governance frameworks aimed at eradicating the black market in the Philippines?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-33625","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\/33625","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=33625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33663,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33625\/revisions\/33663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}