The judge said Ramiro Barajas’ sentence “might be somewhat different but for the sentence that was imposed” last year on former Melrose Park police officer John Amabile, who got home detention from another judge.
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A former Melrose Park police officer whose late grandfather was a reputed mob boss and whose brother is a former reality TV star pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in a gambling ring once run by a bookie now facing a prison sentence of more than two years.
A third individual, Ramiro Barajas, was also charged Wednesday as part of the same investigation, court records show.
Paloian admitted in January that he ran the ring from 2015 until 2019 in Chicago, Elmwood Park and Melrose Park. But federal authorities have said they “know now that Paloian was running a bookmaking operation as early as 2012 and continuing until shut down by the FBI.”