Lansing, Mich. officials latterly searched ii suspected illegal gambling dens housed in local storefronts. Authorities seized 82 gaming machines, as swell as $91,500 inwards cash, it was revealed today.
One operation, in the Logan Square Shopping Center, was raided on Feb. 28. Some 62 machines were seized. Among them were 28 expansion slot machines, a virtual cosh table, as swell as other casino-style gambling devices, MLive.com, a regional news land site in Michigan, reported.
The second location, identified as Games of Skill, was searched on Mar 4. Officials seized 13 slots and vii gaming games, the report adds.
Unregulated, illegal gaming operations inwards Lansing ask over offense into our neighborhoods and stage business corridors,” Lansing Mayor Andy Schor said inward a statement announcing the raids.
Shutting Down Illegal Gaming Sites
“We are doing all we can buoy to describe these illegal establishments and unopen them knock down permanently,” Schor added.
Investigators from the Newmarket Attorney General’s office, the Michigan Gaming Control Board (MGCB), and capital of Michigan Police Department took part.
“I am thankful for the efforts of the Michigan Gaming Control Board, the Attorney General, and other province agencies … workings with the Lansing Police Department to closed down pat(p) these illegal operations and dungeon our residents safe,” Schor said.
The MGCB was contacted by capital of Michigan cops in Oct to get under one's skin assist inward investigating possible illegal gambling operations, officials said. “Partnerships inward law of nature enforcement are a big portion of successful law-breaking fighting,” capital of Michigan Police Chief Ellery Sosebee added in the statement.
It was inward 2018, when a Lansing woman was sentenced to prison house and quaternity other suspects pleaded shamefaced to conducting an illegal gambling surgical procedure at a Logan Square shopping nerve center storefront, officials said.
Michigan residents tin news report any suspicious or illegal gaming activity by calling the MGCB’s anon. fee line of business at 888-314-2682.
Chicago Storefront Site of Alleged Gambling
In an unrelated incident, a of late razed Chicago storefront was allegedly existence used for illegal gaming, prostitution, and fifty-fifty had a possible methamphetamine hydrochloride lab there, a published written report revealed last-place week. The North horse opera Avenue one-story building also was structurally unsound and dangerous, officials said. It was demolished.
Several gaming machines reportedly were seized from the building during a Feb. 8 raid. The court-ordered hunting was led past federal agents and Windy City cops. The Chicago Sun-Times also reported that Allen Stewart Konigsberg Isip, 34, who worked in the building, was supercharged past police.
He was accused of keeping a gambling place, the newspaper said. He claimed to follow the “host” at the operation.
Nationally, illegal gaming has been tied to other crimes, such as illegal narcotics, prostitution, and violence.