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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 Stanley County. “I call it outsmarting the politicians.”
Pennington’s arcade, which had several video slot machines, was shut down over zoning. Officials told him he was too close to a church.
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 Stanley County. “I call it outsmarting the politicians.”
Pennington’s arcade, which had several video slot machines, was shut down over zoning. Officials told him he was too close to a church.
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 gaming. Read More
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. Read More
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 arcades,” otherwise known as online sweepstakes businesses, which have danced around the state’s strict gambling laws for years. Read More
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 count of possessing illegal gaming terminals, and one count of operating electronic sweepstakes. Read More
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.
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 fire station, 236 S. Main St., Warrenton.
The town’s planning board met on Jan. 11 to consider the application for special use permit; however, the town failed to meet legal requirements regarding meeting notification to members of its Sunshine List and the media. The Sunshine List is a list of citizens who have requested to receive notification of meetings.
State law requires public bodies to give notice of meetings, except for emergency meetings, at least 48 hours in advance.
