Correction: Helena-West Helena club owner Wayne Webb, who pleaded guilty in August to money-laundering, tentatively faces four years’ probation and a $4,000 fine if a federal judge accepts a plea agreement. This article misstated Webb’s potential sentence.
LITTLE ROCK — Sentencing for Helena-West Helena nightclub owner Wayne Webb, who pleaded guilty in August to money laundering, has been reset for Jan. 30.
U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. set the new sentencing date Friday.
Webb, 64, has admitted to earning about $90,000 from illegal gambling in his Queen of Clubs bar and restaurant. His admission came about 10 months after authorities revealed that they seized 11 video-gambling machines from his club and had linked him to eight other machines seized elsewhere.
Federal agents also said they had secretly recorded Webb boasting about how much money he made from illegal gambling.
Webb tentatively faces a negotiated sentence of three years’ probation and a $4,000 fine if the judge accepts the plea agreement after reviewing a pre-sentence report.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 12/31/2012