Sheriff Wants To Crack Down On Slot Machine Operations In South Texas
News of police raids on illegal eight-liners, or slot machine operations have been increasingly common in south Texas. Willacy County Sheriff Larry Spence says that certain cities within the county are making efforts to regulate the operations. But outside of city limits, “game rooms,” are opening up and gaining popularity under the radar of law enforcement.
“You can regulate them to some degree but you can’t keep them from opening, so you have to start watching them pretty closely,” Spence says.
Spence says that usually an operation will open and be advertised as a “game room.” It is against the law to offer monetary reward in the rooms so officials have to be vigilant in monitoring them. Game room operators will often offer cash, credit cards and even bags of silver to be exchanged for money by certain cooperating parties.
Spence says some people argue that the rooms provide social and entertainment opportunities and that they don’t think they should be told what to do with their money.
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