BRIEFLY : N.Y. MAN ARRAIGNED IN BC GAMBLING-RING CASE.James Potter For the Harry Potter character, see . James Potter (1729–1789), was a soldier, farmer and politician from Colonial- and Revolutionary-era Pennsylvania. of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of was arraigned Tuesday in Newton, Mass., on charges he ran a sports gambling ring using Boston College Boston College, main campus at Chestnut Hill, Mass.; coeducational; Jesuit; est. and opened 1863. Actually a university, the school's Chestnut Hill campus comprises colleges of arts and sciences and business administration, the graduate school, and schools of nursing student bookmakers. Potter, 33, pleaded innocent to charges of organizing and promoting gambling services, using a telephone for gaming purposes and conspiracy to organize and promote gambling services, prosecutors said. Newton district court Judge Conrad Bletzer ordered him held on $20,000 cash bail. Kurt Schwartz, a prosecutor with the Middlesex County For the traditional county of England, see Middlesex. For other uses, see Middlesex (disambiguation). Middlesex County is the name of six counties in North America:
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