Friday, April 13, 2007

Former WCW and TNA star Disco Inferno Glen Gilberti was among those arrested
late Monday night during a gambling bust involving high stakes no limit
hold-em poker in Roswell, Georgia. Local police had been investigating the
gambling ring for six months after complaints from neighbors about the
amount of people coming to and from the home. Gamblers would have to pay a
fee of $10,000 to get into the game with the basement of a home on Nesbit
Ridge Drive converted to look like a casino. Players would sign up and pay a
$10,000 entrance fee online, then receive an invitation to location of the
game. A game was ongoing during the bust with some found holding poker chips
and waitresses serving drinks. Roswell police Sgt. B.C. Brackett told the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "I've been with the city for going on 27
years, and I've not seen an operation like this in my tenure." 27 people
were arrested with two, Gilberti and an accomplice, charged with felony
gambling charges. The others were expected to be charged with misdemeanors.
20 cars, one of which contained over 200 ecstacy pills, were also impounded.
The gambling bust made all of the local newscasts and newspapers in the
Atlanta market, but at this point, Gilberti's past as a professional
wrestler has not been noted. Gilberti, doing his 1970s Disco throwback
character as a takeoff of John Travolta in "Staying Alive" was a regular
with World Championship Wrestling from the mid-1990s to the end of the
company when it was sold to World Wrestling Entertainment in 2001. Gilberti
became a TNA regular and was with the company for much of its run in
Nashville, TN as a weekly PPV series. He received a tryout as an agent for
TNA last year as well but wasn't hired for the position.