DES MOINES, Iowa — Defense attorney Alfredo Parrish has experience representing college athletes in criminal cases. You don’t have to be a law scholar to see problems with the DCI sports gambling investigation, Parrish said.
“The public doesn’t realize how bad this is,” Parrish said. “The more they see through news reports…they’ll see.”
Parrish has not represented any of the 15 student-athletes charged in the DCI sports gambling investigation which began in early 2023.
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According to court filings published January 22nd, Iowa DCI agents led by special agent Brian Sanger used a software program to geofence athletic facilities at Iowa and Iowa State Universities to track online gambling activity without a warrant. Evidence was collected on the student-athletes as well as an unknown number of others who were not the focus of the investigation.
“What the DCI did in this case was (proceed) without any guidance from a judge to invade the privacy of a number of people,” Parrish said. “In looking at this case, it was a fishing expedition that in our country we don’t allow.”