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Canadian Police Spend Year Investigating Poker Room
WINDSOR, ONTARIO --
An undercover investigation in Canada took over a year before police raided a poker operation. Woodbridge, Ontario was the location of a small club over a bakery that law enforcement took down for illegal gambling.
Over twenty officers swarmed the building, gaining entry only after busting through a special steel door with remote locks. Police seized over $12,000 in cash, as well as poker tables, chips, and computers.
Law enforcement spokesmen said the covert poker room was paying tournament winners as much as $10,000, while the club banked around $8000 a night. Prosecutors complained that laws were too lenient to deter offenders, when maximum punishments involved small fines and diversion programs.
Canadian defense attorney Peter White saw it another way. Asked to comment on the case, White pointed out the huge expense of running the police operation, in terms of both exhausting manpower resources as well as costing taxpayers significant money.
White said, "Police are just acting as enforcers, protecting the government monopoly on gambling. Nobody really believes the government is concerned with protecting citizens from immoral or dangerous influences; after all, the government is by far the leading disseminator of gambling."
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