BREAKING NEWS : Three Iowa hawkeye key Players Has Been Suspended indefinitely from All Sport for Placing A Bet Against…
Criminal charges have been brought against seven active or former athletes as a result of gambling investigations at Iowa and Iowa State. The athletes with the highest prominence are Hunter Dekkers, the quarterback for the Cyclones, and Ahron Ulis, the former basketball star for the Hawkkeyes.
In the allegations, all parties are charged with tampering with records pertaining to an Iowa Criminal Division sports gambling investigation. In addition, current players risk losing their eligibility if they break NCAA gambling regulations.
Charges have been brought against Ulis, Iowa kicker Aaron Blom, and baseball player Gehrig Christensen, according to online court documents maintained by Johnson County.
Dekkers was charged in Story County, as were ISU football player Dodge Sauser, ISU wrestler Paniro Johnson and former football player Eyioma Uwazurike, who who was drafted by Denver in 2022 and suspended indefinitely by the NFL for betting on Broncos games during his rookie season.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety said Wednesday the investigation was ongoing and additional charges could be filed. Attorneys for the athletes were not listed in the complaints. Mark Weinhardt of Des Moines said he was representing Dekkers and Sauser and that both would plead not guilty.
Ulis, who transferred to Nebraska after starting 27 games for the Hawkeyes last season, is accused of placing online wagers on a FanDuel Sportsbook account set up under the name of his brother, the complaint said.
Ulis was under Iowa’s legal gambling age of 21 when, between February 2021 to December 2022, he used his phone to make about 1,850 wagers totaling over $34,800, with at least one placed on an Iowa sporting event and over 430 placed on NCAA basketball and football games, the complaint said.
Christensen, who appeared in 11 baseball games for the Hawkeyes last season, is alleged to have used his phone to make 559 wagers totaling $2,400 with the DraftKings Sportsbook from last November to February, with 23 placed on Iowa sporting events. The DraftKings account was under his mother’s name.
