THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – Friday, May 17, 2019 Page 7 Live Racing Returns to Suffolk Downs Saturday and Sunday E AST BOSTON, MA — Wicked Freud, a seven-year-old gelding who hails from the barn of Jason Servis, the trainer of Maximum Security, the first-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby that was disqualified and placed 17th, is slated to run in Saturday’s feature, a $55,000 allowance/optional claiming race at about 7 ½ furlongs on the turf with a field of nine as live racing resumes Saturday at Suffolk Downs in conjunction with the simulcast of the Preakness Stakes. More than 100 horses have been entered for the Saturday’s 11-race card with more than $500,000 in purses and incentives on the line as the track kicks off the first of three scheduled live racing and food truck festival weekends for its final live racing season. The entries include familiar local horsemen and jockeys including Jay Bernardini, Karl Grusmark and Tammi Piermarini, the third all-time leading woman rider in history. In addition to the featured race, there are five other races carded on the turf for Saturday. Over the course of the weekend, there will be four stakes races restricted to horses foaled in Massachusetts – the $50,000 Rise Jim Stakes and the $50,000 Isadorable Stakes on Saturday along with the $50,000 African Prince Stakes and $50,000 George F. Brown Memorial Dirt Mile Stakes on Sunday. The popular Massachusetts-bred Dr. Blarney will be trying to win the Rise Jim Stakes for the third consecutive year for owner and breeder Joseph DiRico. “Once again we look forward to welcoming back racing fans and to providing an opportunity for local owners, trainers and Massachusetts breeders to run here for purses and incentives enhanced by the state’s Race Horse Development Fund,” said Chip Tuttle, Suffolk Downs’ chief operating officer. “We appreciate the assistance and cooperation of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission and its staff in staging these festival weekends. And, we look at this final season of live racing here as a celebration as we continue to work with the New England HBPA and the Massachusetts Thoroughbred Breeders Association on our plan to restore and refurbish the Great Barrington Fair Grounds in order to preserve live racing and its related economic and agricultural benefits in the state.” Prior to resuming live racing, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Safety & Integrity Alliance extended Suffolk Downs’ accredBrazilian national sentenced for ATM skimming (Editor’s Note: The following is a story based on a press release issued on May 9 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.) B OSTON – A Brazilian national was sentenced last week in federal court in Boston for ATM skimming at several area banks, including Saugus. Alexandre Kawamura, 43, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Leo Sorokin to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release, and he was ordered to pay $199,078 in restitution. In February 2019, Kawamura pleaded guilty to two counts of using counterfeit access devices (debit and credit cards), four counts of possessing devicemaking equipment (ATM skimming devices and pinhole cameras) and two counts of aggravated identity theft. Kawamura, who legally entered the United States on a tourist visa, will be subject to deportation after he completes his sentence. Kawamura placed hidden skimming devices and pinhole cameras on Eastern Bank ATMs in Saugus, Stoneham, Medford and Everett, every day between February 25 and March 16, 2018, when he was arrested. The purpose of the skimming devices was to record bank account information on the magnetic strips of debit and credit cards that unwitting victims inserted into the ATMs. The purpose of the pinhole cameras was to capture the victims’ PINs as they were entered on the ATM keypads. On March 8, 2018, Kawamura possessed a counterfeit debit card with a magnetic strip that contained the stolen bank account number of a Milton woman. At an ATM in Malden, Kawamura used the card and the victim’s PIN to withdraw $500 cash from the victim’s account. On March 16, 2018, Kawamura used a counterfeit credit card to buy clothing at a sporting goods store in Medford. The name on the card was an alias, and the card’s magnetic strip contained the stolen Eastern Bank account number of a Medford man, whose account had been compromised the day before. Kawamura was arrested on March 16 after a bank customer called police to report that he had found a skimming device on a drive-up ATM at an Eastern Bank branch in Stoneham. Police responded and discovered that the pinhole camera was still attached to the ATM. They set up surveillance and waited for the suspect to return. Kawamura drove up to the ATM in a rental car shortly before 11 p.m. He appeared to look for the skimming device and then drove off. Stoneham police stopped the car and discovered that the driver had a Brazilian passport in his real name and had rented the car under an alias. Kawamura was in possession of the counterfeit credit card that he had just used to buy clothing at the sporting goods store. Prior to skimming in Massachusetts, Kawamura had skimmed ATMs in and around Austin and San Antonio, Texas; he was caught on bank surveillance cameras skimming at University Federal Credit Union and Randolph Brooks Federal Credit Union ATMs in November and December 2017. United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling and the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Boston Field Office, Joseph R. Bonavolonta, made the announcement. Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Wichers of Lelling’s Major Crimes Unit prosecuted the case. 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Post time for the 11 race card is at 12:55 p.m. and gates open at 11:00 a.m. In addition to live racing, the track will be hosting a food truck festival featuring food trucks from numerous local vendors, craft beer, live music and family fun activities. Live racing will continue on Sunday with eleven races and the track will again offer approximately $500,000 in purses and awards. For more information, visit www.suffolkdowns.com About Suffolk Downs: Built by 3,000 workers in just 62 days when Massachusetts authorized pari-mutuel wagering in 1935, the historic track has been a showcase for some of the most famous names in Thoroughbred racing history, including Seabiscuit, Whirlaway, John Henry, Cigar and Skip Away. www.reverealuminumwindow.com
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