The FBI is reportedly investigating claims made by the household of mid-stakes poker champ George Janssen that he was kidnapped and held captive for greater than a month.
George Janssen wins the Mid-States Poker Tour $1,600 Foremost Occasion on the Venetian in Las Vegas on Sept. 10, 2023, two months earlier than his reported disappearance. (Picture: msptpoker.com)
In accordance with WJRT-TV/Flint, the 41-year-old Michigan father was found zip-tied and bloodied in conjunction with a rural street in Dangerous Axe, Mich. on Dec. 16. He instructed the passer-by he flagged down that he managed to flee his captors.
Police launched this picture of Janssen’s deserted automobile, within which they discovered two $50 payments on the ground. (Picture: Monroe County Sheriff’s Division)
A member of Janssen’s household, which reported him lacking on Nov. 13, instructed WJRT that he was kidnapped and pushed by two or three individuals to the Toledo space, the place he was tied up for 35 days within the basement of a house.
On Dec. 16, the information station reported, Janssen seems to have been pushed again to Michigan.
“From what we gathered, he was being introduced up right here to recuperate some cash that was hidden to offer to those two assailants,” Huron County Sheriff Kelly Hanson instructed WJRT.
Janssen, the previous proprietor of a Michigan automobile dealership, has 4 championship rings from the World Sequence of Poker Circuit, a collection of on line casino poker tournaments held yearly since 2005 as a build-up to the World Sequence of Poker.
Janssen’s household mentioned that he had complained about repeated extortion makes an attempt for at the least two years. That’s when his money wins, which date again to 2015, actually began ramping up. On-line and in individual, his winnings now whole simply north of $200K — together with his two career-best cashes, $83K and $80K, from Mid-States Poker Tour wins inside 90 days of his disappearance.
Hanson instructed the information station: “We are able to’t substantiate whether or not it did occur or it didn’t occur. However there are lots of issues that have to be regarded into.”
All stories from the Huron County Sheriff’s Division, Dangerous Axe Police, and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Division have been turned over to the FBI, based on WJRT.
