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‘Outsmarting the politicians:’ How an unregulated, illegal gambling industry is still thriving
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - An unreglulated, illegal gambling industry is still open for business and raking in money by exploiting a loophole in a decade-old state law. "They want to call it a loophole," said Terry Pennington, who used to own Winners World Adult Arcade in...
The growing industry of Internet gaming in Wake County
RALEIGH, N.C. - Local law enforcement admits sweepstakes parlors have become targets for violent crimes. Investigators said it's because of the large amounts of cash they keep on hand and the late night hours. Yet by some estimates there are more than a hundred of...
NC County announces enforcement of internet gaming
On the morning of Tuesday, April 23, Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson and his staff held a press conference at the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office headquarters, at which the county’s law enforcement agency announced a new position on internet sweepstakes and...
Internet Sweepstakes Arcades
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - An unregulated, illegal gambling industry is still cashing in, despite a decade-old law that making internet sweepstakes cafes illegal. The insider went through the process of opening an internet sweepstakes cafe. He's now sharing the secrets he...
Florida wrestles with Internet Cafes
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - The businesses under investigation in a Florida gambling probe started popping up in strip malls about six years ago and rapidly spread. The unregulated, unlicensed stores became a billion-dollar enterprise, but authorities say one of...
Jacksonville councilman wants Internet Cafes out
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.- City leaders are considering a new tactic in efforts to shut down more than 100 internet cafes operating in Jacksonville. An attempt by the Florida Legislature in 2013 to ban internet cafes remains tied up in the courts. The games are now...
Setback variance denied for gaming operation
Hare Road area residents on Tuesday voiced concerns about heavy traffic on a small dead-end road, late-night hours, litter and the potential for crime as reasons for their opposition to a proposed internet sweepstakes business near their homes. Goldsboro, NC Sitting...
Sweepstakes Parlors vs City of Mebane
MEBANE — Online sweepstakes parlors are loved by some and hated by many, and the Mebane City Council is among the “many.” The council voted unanimously Monday, March 4, to approve amendments to the city’s Unified Development Ordinance restricting “video gaming...
Largest gaming parlor bust in more than a decade
BLADEN COUNTY, NC - State and local authorities have arrested three people and charged four others following a raid of illegal video game parlors in Bladen County on Thursday. “This is the largest gaming parlor bust in more than 10 years in Bladen County,” said...
Bladen County North Carolina Raids
Former deputy Steven Ray Lovin, of Lumberton, is charged with: two counts of gambling, two counts of operating video gaming machines, two counts of possession of five or more video gaming machines, one count of promote, operate, or conduct a server based game, one...
Illegal gambling operation in back of tattoo shop
GASTONIA, N.C. - Like a tattoo artist's needle, we are going under the surface. Using a hidden camera, FOX 46 went undercover inside a Gastonia tattoo shop to expose a secret. From the outside, Ink Link Tattoos, on East Franklin Boulevard in Gastonia, is...
Gaming machines now banned in Virginia
A recent change to the way Virginia defines illegal gambling could allow prosecutors to go after more computer gaming shops. The bill, which unanimously passed both houses of the General Assembly this session, "clarifies the existing code for prosecution of illegal...
Police seize cash and equipment from Concord sweepstakes gaming operation
CONCORD, NC (WBTV) - Police searched a sweepstakes gaming operation and seized what they say is a “significant amount” of cash and equipment in Concord Thursday. According to the Concord Police Department, officers executed a search warrant at The Concord Biz Center...
Town sets hearing on permit for internet café
The Warrenton Town Board will hold a public hearing to receive citizen comments on a special use permit application for a gaming establishment prior to its February board meeting. The hearing will begin at 6:45 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 11, at the Warrenton Rural...
Gainesville man arrested in burglary at Ocala Internet cafe
OCALA – A Gainesville man who admitted to breaking into an internet café to get cash, was arrested Wednesday by a sheriff’s detective. Najuan Shaquile Burse-Williams told Detective Pam Thomas he fired shots at the front door, which broke the glass. He said he entered...
Citrus County deputies bust illegal gambling shops
HOMOSASSA, Fla - Detectives with the Citrus County Sheriff's Office served search warrants at two illegal gambling shops on Thursday. The Sheriff's Office had been investigating the Time Square Internet Sweepstakes Cafe and the Lucky U 777 in Homosassa for several...
Two employees of internet cafe fatally shot during robbery, Columbus police say
Two employees of an East Side Internet cafe were fatally shot during a robbery Sunday morning, Columbus, Ohio police said. Police were called at 4:06 a.m. to a shooting at Players Paradise Internet Cafe, 3439 E. Broad St., where they found two people unresponsive....
Eden police remove ‘anti-cheating devices’ from sweepstakes tables, solve automobile interference
EDEN — Police say they have recovered several electronic “anti-cheating devices” from a local sweepstakes operation and thereby remedied static that has for months disabled key fobs, locks and ignitions of cars parked nearby. Officers last week removed the gizmos,...
Lucky Day sweepstakes parlor may be in violation of federal law for use of “EMP jammer’’
EDEN, NC— Mexican restaurant customers, police and a national cyber security expert know that a powerful EMP signal emanating from a neighboring sweepstakes internet cafe operation is disabling vehicles in the restaurant parking lot and 911 emergency service in the...
Seminole Tribe only suing internet cafes in Jacksonville
Attorney says there's 'considerably more' cafes than in other Florida cities JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - More about why the Seminole Tribe of Florida has filed a lawsuit against numerous internet cafes in Jacksonville, asking a judge to issue an injunction shutting them....
