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Video Poker Machines Seized In North Carolina
North Carolina authorities confiscated $2 million and at least 50 video poker machines when they conducted a raid hoping to crack down illegal gambling operations in North Carolina, according to a statement given by state agents Thursday, November 16.
21 businesses were raided by Alcohol Law Enforcement agents, including bars and convenience stores, a storage warehouse and two businessmen's homes as part of an investigation that took over one and a half years.
State authorities said that charges have not been issued as of yet, and no names have been divulged.
Authorities were alerted by the public complaints of operations involving illegal cash payouts from video poker, according to ALE Wester District Supervisor Ron Kaylor.
Kaylor added that the complaints on the video poker machines mostly came from "people who had family members that were putting hundreds of dollars into video poker machines and losing it."
Additionally, Kaylor stated that 50 agents and two investigators from Buncombe County were able to seize the $2 million, which are believed to be the proceeds from the illegal gambling activity. Included was money hidden around a Henderson County home.
North Carolina is beginning the first phase of banning video poker machines, which it will completely ban in July of 2007.
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