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Federal Grand Jury indicted 21 people

In July 1, video gambling was made illegal in North Carolina. Up until that time, stores were allowed to have a maximum of three video gambling machines. It was perfectly legal for players to engage in some gambling in the stores and the maximum prize that they could win was just $10 in store merchandise. No serious amounts of money were ever involved so why video gambling was made illegal is a little dubious.

According to WITN 7, Eastern Carolina’s Weather Authority, 21 people in Asheville, North Carolina were indicted after linking them to an illegal video poker investigation.

The illegal video poker operation was allegedly headed by two South Carolina brothers named James Otis Henderson and Barron Sloan Henderson. The brothers operated the banned video poker gambling machines in the counties of western North Carolina. They and the people involved in their illegal gambling operation also bribed two Buncombe County sheriff’s deputies so that they could go on with running their video poker gambling. These two sheriff’s deputies were former Buncombe sheriff’s Lieutenant Ronnie Eugene Davis and former reserve Captain Kenneth Penland.

Investigation is still ongoing but removing video poker machines will only send people to play poker elsewhere, like let’s say, the internet.

source:http://www.witntv.com/home/headlines/8914227.html