Partial sheet of police calls for service at 9275 Richmond Ave., Suite 101, Houston — Legends Poker Room. (See full sheet of recent calls here: Calls for Service)
Legends Poker Room, 9275 Richmond Ave., Houston, Texas.
The police have that location bookmarked for trouble with a capital T.
We’ve attached the “calls for service” as the police refer to it in the attached PDF. Click on the image above to be taken to the spreadsheet of calls involving police response to Legends Poker Room.
Calls for service to law enforcement agencies generally include calls to “911” for emergency assistance and may also include calls to non-emergency numbers.
Looking at this list, would you feel safe at the Legends Poker Room address?
Legends Poker Room exists in the 77063 zip code. Crime was up 21.9% in this zip code in 2020, according to Houston’s local ABC 13 Investigates analysis of Houston Police Department crime data (HPD), the most recent year this kind of data has been analyzed. There were 4,402 incidents reported to HPD in 2019 compared to 5,365 incidents reported in 2020. It continues to rise.
Let’s run down some of the calls: Just in the past few months, there have been four shootings (3) or discharge of weapons (1); burglaries; auto theft; theft from autos; assaults … every manner of serious crime — 13 calls in all.
Take a look at this video from earlier this year in which a Houston police department lieutenant details a shooting that was subverted when a Legends security guard foiled the attempted armed robbery.
Just down the street, essentially the same strip mall area, separated only by a small cross street, you’ll find 101 Poker Richmond operating at 9371 Richmond Ave. It has nearly equal the amount of crime taking place, maybe even more, on a weekly — almost daily — basis. Burglaries, robberies, assaults, weapons disturbances and firearms discharge, sexual assault, theft, attempted suicide … dozens of calls over time.
Sounds like a real pleasant place to be doesn’t it?
Can you imaging carrying large sums of money either to play or as winnings in or out of either one of these poker spots in the dead of night? You’d better have an armed escort or be armed yourself and ready to use deadly force.
We’ll ask you, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner: Are you OK with this?