Yesterday on Capitol Hill Vice

Did we say a gambling bust? We left out the coke and meth part. And the undercover cop posing as a "trust fund baby."

It's all very Capone, a semi-shady poker room in the building behind the Wild Rose that neighbors looked the other way about--"It has not been a very hush-hush thing," a neighbor told the Seattle Times. "Everybody in the apartment building knew this was going on. It didn't bother them."

John Walsh V.O.
But the gambling den fronted for a drug-dealing operation neighbors knew nothing about.

We have an exclusive video reenactment, below, of how the whole thing went down.

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