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A captain with the Kent Police Department and his wife were arrested and charged in connection with internet cafe raids that took place throughout Lorain County last month.
James Cole, 52, of Stow, and his wife, Audrey Cole, 45, of Stow, were included in the 10 secret indictments unsealed Wednesday. Lorain County Prosecutor Dennis Will has said 55 indictments were returned by a grand jury in connection to the illegal casino gaming raids.
Regulating internet cafes
After several weeks of crafting a final draft for a proposed law regulating internet cafes in Belleview, the City Commission voted Tuesday to move the proposal forward.
That’s how much time sweepstakes businesses have to shut down before Burlington’s fully-enforced ban on the the gambling games goes into effect.
Burlington police announced the decision Tuesday.
Internet cafes soon will no longer have free reign in Belleview.
Inside Belleview City Hall on Tuesday evening, Mayor Christine Dobkowski and members of the Belleview City Commission voted 5-0 to approve a new city ordinance that will regulate how internet cafes are allowed to operate within city limits. Read More
TAVARES, Fla. – Tavares police raided an internet gambling café Monday afternoon, seizing cash and computers.
Police served a warrant at “Dreamers” along South Duncan Drive in the Dora Canal Plaza off State Road 19.
Police said they’re tired of these businesses opening up in Tavares, since this is the second one that has been raided in the past few months.
The Sting takes place!
ELYRIA — Several individuals were indicted on charges in connection with last month’s raids of internet cafes throughout Lorain County.
10 secret indictments in connection to the raids were unsealed, according to court documents. Audrey Cole, 45, of Stow; Roscoe Blankenship, 46, of Clinton; Edward Simon, 46, of Canton; Edward Brown, 54, of Barberton; James Cole, 52, of Stow; Diana Scribner, 52, of Amherst; Zachary Brown, 28, of Barberton; Donald Pasters, 52, of Grafton; Joshua Woehler, of Barberton; and Kimberly Strader, 55, of Amherst, were indicted on charges of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and charges linked to operating a gambling casino.
Whether it is legal to own and operate “games of skill” is still ambiguous on the state level, but some local leaders have decided to go ahead and prohibit these electronic gaming businesses often referred to as “fish-table” games.
The City of Lexington recently issued a six-month prohibition on new permits for businesses operating table-mounted video games that pay out rewards, usually cash, for accumulating points by “catching” electronic fish.
Video gambling continues in North Carolina
RALEIGH, NC
The state House is trying to beef up penalties for illegal sweepstakes operations, but it’s unclear if the Senate will consider the bill just days before the scheduled end of lawmakers’ session.
The House Finance Committee on Tuesday morning introduced a rewritten version of House Bill 471 that would make it a Class G felony to possess or operate two or more electronic gaming machines. Possession of the machine is already illegal — the result of a lengthy effort by the legislature to ban internet sweepstakes parlors — but the initial charge is a misdemeanor.
Players Choice in the Sheffield Center Plaza was one of the businesses raided by law enforcement agencies from around the county and the Ohio Casino Commission.
Local internet cafes were raided throughout Lorain County Wednesday as part of a coordinated investigation by a host of state and local agencies.
Law enforcement, including Lorain, Amherst and Sheffield police, Lorain County Sheriff’s deputies, the Ohio Department of Taxation Criminal Investigations Division and the Ohio Casino Control Commission, raided several internet cafes, including one in Midview Plaza in Eaton Township and three in Sheffield Township along North Ridge Road.
MARION COUNTY, Fla. The Unified Drug Enforcement Strike Team executed search warrants after an investigation revealed illegal activity going on inside of five different internet cafes in Marion County.
Meghan Shay who’s the spokesman for the force said, “UDEST is specifically targeting internet cafes that are engaging in illegal gambling activity, which means they have games of chance that they’re carrying out, not games of skills.”