Nevada arrest tied to Fresno State basketball games, alleged gambling conspiracy
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More than a year after two Fresno State basketball players were kicked off the team in an alleged sports betting scandal, the Nevada Gaming Control Board said it has “established probable cause that multiple individuals conspired to fraudulently place wagers tied to the intentional underperformance.”
In a statement Thursday, the NGCB said one suspect has been arrested and it’s actively pursuing criminal charges for several others who remain outstanding. The unnamed suspect was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on May 5, charged with:
- Fraudulent acts
- Conspiracy cheating at gambling
- Conspiracy to launder money
The control board, in coordination with the NCAA, obtained evidence through subpoenas of financial records, cellphone data and licensed sportsbook operators, and found the alleged conspiracy involved “former and current associates connected to collegiate basketball programs, who coordinated and illegally profited from proposition wagers that they made based on their inside knowledge of a player’s intentional underperformance.”
The release specifically references a Jan. 7 Fresno State game.
No other details were released to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation, NGCB said.
Three Bulldogs players — Jalen Weaver, Zaon Collins and Mykell Robinson — were suspended from the men’s basketball in February 2025 while Fresno State conducted an internal investigation into alleged betting activity.
At the time, the suspensions were officially an “eligibility matter,” according to the university.
Weaver and Robinson were later removed from the team, while Collins was eventually reinstated.
Weaver and Robinson, and a third player, Steven Vasquez, were permanently banned by the NCAA when the organization released the findings of its own investigation in September. All three “bet on their own games, one another’s games and/or provided information that enabled others to do so during the 2024-25 regular season,” according to the NCAA.
Two of the students “manipulated performances to ensure that certain bets were won.”