POLICE RAID ALLEGED NEWPORT NEWS INTERNET GAMBLING
DEN
15 May 2009
Illegal gambling charges still to be filed
against cheque cashing business
Police claim that a Newport News cheque-cashing business
which they raided late last week also carried on an
illegal gambling business, the McClatchy-Tribune news
service reports. Cash Express also does business as
Internet Sweepstakes Center, and was visited by
undercover police officers three times in April,
according to an affidavit for a search warrant in
Newport News Circuit Court.
The warrant was
followed by a police raid in which 20 computer gaming
machines and a card reader were seized and are being
examined.
"There have been no arrests, but
charges are pending," said police spokesman Lou
Thurston.
The Newport News police were alerted to
the illegal gambling enterprise by their counterparts in
Hampton, the McClatchy-Tribune report reveals. Hampton
police came across the enterprise while investigating a
seperate matter.
According to the affidavit filed
by the Newport News investigators regarding the Cash
Express case, gamblers played on normal desktop computer
systems with card readers attached. Users would transfer
money from their credit cards onto special swipe cards,
which would then be used to buy computerised "tokens"
for the computer games available on the PCs.
"These tokens were then wagered in player-defined
amounts," the affidavit said. "The winnings would then
appear as money won on the screen."
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