Utah Cracks Down On Online Gambling – Online Casino News
Police in the small Utah city of Murray raided an Internet cafe on Sunday evening and arrested over 50 people on allegations that they were conducting and participating in illegal online gambling activities.
The Murray City Police Department revealed that it had conducted several undercover operations at The Fortune Cyber Cafe in the Salt Lake City suburb since spring in cooperation of the Salt Lake County District Attorneys Office and stated that customers were playing various online slot games alongside poker and keno.
Following the raid, police formally charged six employees while issuing 45 others with citations. Ironically, the owner of the location was not arrested or charged.
This cafe was allegedly operating a scheme that saw customers purchase Internet time before being issued with a card that they could then insert into a computer. Winning players were then allowed to cash in these cards and take their spoils home with them as cash.
“[We want to] keep customers out of their business and let [customers] realise that if they do go to a business like this, they will be arrested for it,” Kenny Bass, Detective for the Murray City Police Department, told local television station Fox 13.
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