Seven in poker game charged with gambling in Horry County

Police arrested seven people after an anonymous tip about an illegal poker game from what may have been a suspect's mother, according to a police report.

Horry County police went to 3926 Wesley St. at 2:45 a.m. Sunday after getting an anonymous call from a woman on a pay phone who said her son was in the Myrtle Beach-area building where people were playing high-stakes poker, police said.

Police surrounded the building, and seven people were arrested as they came out, according to the report.

Officers found several poker tables and gaming items in the building.

Michael Green, 41, of Loris, who owns the building, told police they had been gambling inside, according to the report.

Green was charged with unlawful games and betting and booked into J. Reuben Long Detention Center at 6:11 a.m. Sunday.

He was released later that day on $250 bail. Police found $1,402 on him at the time of his arrest.

Each of the other six were charged with unlawful gambling, and police seized the following amounts of cash from five of them: James Earl Redick, 68, of Georgetown, $33 seized; Brenda Alford Redick, 67, of Georgetown, $6seized; Sean Patrick O'Brien, 43, of Myrtle Beach, $745 seized; Moshe Ben-Ezra, 26, of Myrtle Beach, no cash; Ryan Lee Ott, 37, of Sawyer Calif., $2,435 seized; and Roi Polani, 30, of Myrtle Beach, $660 seized.

The group was released Sunday from the detention center on $250 bail, according to jail records.