{"id":554124,"date":"2026-04-16T22:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554124\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:30:26","slug":"son-of-boston-bruins-legend-gerry-cheevers-charged-with-sports-ticket-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554124\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Boston Bruins legend Gerry Cheevers charged with sports ticket fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

The son of Boston Bruins legend Gerry Cheevers was arrested on charges he was selling discounted sports tickets that weren\u2019t real.<\/p>\n

Leicester Police Department detectives arrested Robert Cheevers, 57, at his East Boston apartment earlier this month after what they described as a \u201cmonths-long investigation\u201d into the fake tickets scam complaints.<\/p>\n

Police say that Robert Cheevers\u2019 scams were wide-ranging. In addition to the Leicester warrant for larceny of more than $1,200 by a single scheme, he was subject to a warrant out of Newburyport District Court for the same offense as well as a warrant from Clark County, Nevada \u2014 the home of Las Vegas \u2014 for burglary, felony theft, and insufficient funds.<\/p>\n

Robert Cheevers was arraigned at East Brookfield District Court and is being held in Worcester County jail, according to a police statement. Leicester Police thanked the police departments of Newburyport, North Andover, and Boston and the Clark County, Nevada, District Attorney\u2019s office for investigative support.<\/p>\n

Robert Cheevers\u2019 father, Gerry Cheevers, was a goalie for the Boston Bruins beginning in the 1965-1966 season and was known for his league-leading performances and his practice of marking his mask with stitches to show where pucks had hit him.<\/p>\n

According to the NHL, Gerry Cheevers retired after the 1979-1980 season following 227 wins and 26 shutouts across 418 regular-season games, with his playoff games record of 53 wins and eight shutouts is the best of all Bruins goalies.<\/p>\n

\"GLORY<\/a><\/p>\n

Herald file photo<\/p>\n

GLORY DAYS: Gerry Cheevers guards the goal during his heyday with the Bruins. (Herald file photo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The son of Boston Bruins legend Gerry Cheevers was arrested on charges he was selling discounted sports tickets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,62669,62667,62668,5,1180,997,1805,40,4,13456],"class_list":{"0":"post-554124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-bostonbruins","11":"tag-bruins","12":"tag-crime-public-safety","13":"tag-east-boston","14":"tag-fraud","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-latest-headlines","17":"tag-local-news","18":"tag-massachusetts","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-suffolk-county"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116416756926619283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}