“Vegas Dave” mightiness present beryllium “Thailand Dave.”
After the sports betting fig David “Vegas Dave” Oancea didn’t amusement up for a court hearing successful earlier this month, a Clark County justice issued a warrant for his arrest.
Less than 2 weeks later, his Instagram relationship appeared to amusement his sandy toes connected the shores of Southeast Asia.
His latest posts promoted his sports betting picks and what appeared to beryllium a luxurious enactment connected Ko Samui, an land that is portion of Thailand, with the tag “Asia is the best.”
A assemblage uploaded Tuesday included photos and videos of the Samui Airport, a affluent cocoa dessert, a excavation with a formation presumption and a backstage jet.
Oancea, who was featured successful the Showtime docuseries “Action” astir the sports gambling world, did not respond to a petition for remark Wednesday astatine an email listed connected his Instagram account. Attorneys for him besides did not respond to requests for comment.
One station this week, a photograph of Oancea, was tagged Bangkok, Thailand. In different post, Oancea, seemingly lasting connected a beach, plugged his shot picks with urgency.
“Here’s your last reminder, guys: assemblage shot is starting soon, past NFL,” helium said. “Final reminder for the 50 percent off. After this, it’s afloat price. Save money, articulation the package, physique a 2nd watercourse of income. Even arsenic a beginner, arsenic agelong arsenic you tin work an email and propulsion a button, you tin bash this.”
He added: “Put your spot successful me, marque wealth and astir importantly, bask the season. Bet with the best.”
Notably, the United States and Thailand person an extradition agreement.
A contempt uncovering that has made it uncomfortable for Oancea to beryllium successful Nevada stems from a suit filed against him successful 2024 by Cabo Platinum, an upscale abrogation bureau successful Mexico.
Cabo Platinum brokered rentals for Oancea’s properties successful Mexico, paying him deposits oregon the afloat rate, but helium fired the company, began preventing radical from accessing the properties and did not instrumentality the wealth helium had received, according to tribunal records.
In 2025, District Judge Timothy Williams ordered Oancea to pay a $30.2 cardinal judgment.
Williams besides ordered Oancea to crook implicit his Richard Mille watch, Birkin bags, cryptocurrency holdings and interests successful 3 Mexican properties.
Oancea past claimed the spot nary longer belonged to him and did not crook implicit immoderate of it, District Judge Tara Clark Newberry recovered successful her bid holding him successful contempt.
She gave Oancea the enactment to debar incarceration by handing implicit property, but Cabo Platinum lawyer Dan McNutt said successful a filing earlier this period that Oancea had not done so.
Litigation continues successful the Nevada Supreme Court, wherever Oancea has sought alleviation from the contempt order.
Cabo Platinum attorneys person asked the tribunal to disregard his petition oregon enactment proceedings, citing Oancea’s defiance of the bid and the fugitive disentitlement doctrine that a idiosyncratic “cannot question appellate reappraisal portion choosing to beryllium a fugitive.”
“(F)orcing Cabo to respond to a writ petition from a fugitive would beryllium a important hardship and further the irreparable harm Oancea has already inflicted,” they wrote successful a filing.
Oancea’s lawyers objected successful a filing, saying that Oancea did not fly Nevada successful effect to the contempt bid oregon warrant, but was already surviving extracurricular the state.
“Oancea did not recently fly the state; the contempt proceedings grounds itself places him successful Florida, caring for his aged parents, months earlier the bid and warrant helium supposedly fled existed,” they wrote.
They added: “What Cabo calls formation is non-compliance with a coercive civilian bid nether progressive and unfastened judicial challenge, not formation from a transgression charge.”
Contact Noble Brigham astatine nbrigham@reviewjournal.com.
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