{"id":7829,"date":"2014-08-12T20:06:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T20:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/08\/12\/ohio-investigators-search-suspected-illegal-casino\/"},"modified":"2014-08-12T20:06:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T20:06:30","slug":"ohio-investigators-search-suspected-illegal-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/08\/12\/ohio-investigators-search-suspected-illegal-casino\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio investigators search suspected illegal casino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nALLIANCE, Ohio (AP) \u2013 Ohio\u2019s attorney general says state officials have searched a Mahoning County business suspected of operating as an illegal casino.<\/p>\n<p>\tAttorney General Mike DeWine\u2019s office says agents with the state\u2019s Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Smith Township police removed 54 machines from the business Tuesday. Officials say 46 of those machines were operational.<\/p>\n<p>\tPolice had received several complaints from residents regarding the establishment. The facility was suspected to have been operating casino gaming devices and giving cash payouts. Officials say skill games with cash prizes are illegal under Ohio law unless operated by a casino or racino.<\/p>\n<p>\tDeWine said in a statement that officials will not tolerate illegal casinos that lack regulatory oversight.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALLIANCE, Ohio (AP) \u2013 Ohio\u2019s attorney general says state officials have searched a Mahoning County business suspected of operating as an illegal casino. Attorney General Mike DeWine\u2019s office says agents with the state\u2019s Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Smith Township&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}