ORLANDO – A federal gambling investigation more than a year in the making has resulted in the arrest Thursday of Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, who was taken into custody amid the team’s season-opening road trip.
The arrest was confirmed in a statement issued Thursday by the FBI, stemming from, according to the agency, “two indictments involving illegal gambling schemes.”
In a release from the Department of Justice, the arrest was part of a sweep of arrests involving “illegal sports betting and and poker games schemes.”
Rozier has been under investigation as part of a probe related to unusual betting patterns in a 2023 game while he was a member of the Charlotte Hornets, prior to his January 2024 trade to the Heat for Kyle Lowry and a future first-round pick.
In a January ESPN story,