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In the 2015 incident, police said Benward worked with another adult male — 45-year-old Jerome James Hartfield — to try and deceive a roulette dealer. The police report detailed that Benward told the dealer to place $60 on the number 16. But once the roulette wheel began spinning, Benward told the dealer he didn’t say 16. The dealer removed the bet. As the roulette wheel ended on the winning number of 11, Benward then claimed to the dealer that he had said 11, not 16.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Hartfield, posing as a random patron unaffiliated with Benward, backed up Benward’s claim that the dealer wrongly heard him, and that he indeed asked to bet on 11. The dealer didn’t buy it, and called security to escort the men off the premises.<\/p>\n
Charges Expand<\/b><\/h2>\n
Shaun Benward is facing considerable time behind bars should prosecutors prove his guilt. After his arrest, he was charged with theft by deception — a third-degree felony — and six counts of fraud.<\/p>\n
Additional charges have since been brought against Benward for driving on a suspended license. Pennsylvania court records show Benward is awaiting a preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n
Benward’s lengthy rap sheet additionally includes once being a fugitive in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 He fled after being charged in the 2015 Mount Airy case. He ended up serving time at a Delaware County prison.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe felony charge alone facing Benward is punishable by up to seven years in prison and a $15,000 fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trying to rip off a casino is one of the worst ideas a thief can undertake. But that hasn’t stopped Shaun Benward, a 35-year-old Mississippi resident who has continually tried his hand at deceiving casinos in Pennsylvania. Why Pennsylvania remains as much a mystery as the man himself. The Daily Voice broke the news that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":206777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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