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There was a guy in TX that I had knowledge who was arrested while buying a racing form on the way to LAD. (He was still in TX at the time.)
Seems the authorities had been watching him as a "bookmaker." (He was not a bookmaker; simply asked people at work if anyone wanted to make a bet.)
His crime was that he had taken $80 worth of bets from his friends at work to place for them at the track. He had written down the wagers on pieces of paper that said things like "Bob, $5 win-place, R5 #3."
These papers were called his "betting slips."
No joke. He got off with no prison time but a felony conviction and was barred from TX race tracks for life. It cost him his career as well as a lot of money to stay out of prison.
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