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Year-Long Investigation Ends Texas Public Gambling
AMARILLO, TEXAS --
Once again, law enforcement officials in the US have shown that, by spending countless man-hours and thousands in taxpayer money, they are capable of ending illegal gambling committed in open view. A Toot--N-Totum convenience store in Amarillo was raided for operating over twenty eight-line slot machines after a twelve-month investigation by six legal agencies.
Sheriif's officers from two counties, FBI, Immigration, Amarillo Police, and the Texas Department of Public Safety, also known as the famed Texas Rangers, worked together to gather enough information over the course of a year to conduct the raid. Police grew suspicious when the store was packed with customers all week long, Potter County Attorney Scott Brumley told KFDA-TV News.
Brumley indicated over a hundred patrons would be inside gambling on any given night. Clearly, these lawmen were on the ball. Any time over a hundred people gather in Amarillo and it's not at a high school football game, something shady might be up.
Still, the crack investigative team had a long way to go; after all, the gambling was occuring right in public view. This had all the marks of a long, drawn-out, expensive inquiry.
Three people were arrested, and possibly as many as six more may be charged. Over $150,000 was seized, although it is undetermined whether some of the money was obtained in the operation of the legal part of the store. I
n any event, that massive profit, over a year, broken down per suspect comes to about ten grand each. How much did taxpayers pay each operative in the year-long investigation? Seems likely to have been more profitable to be law enforcement in West Texas than a gambling kingpin.
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