{"id":38915,"date":"2016-02-18T11:12:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T16:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=38915"},"modified":"2016-02-18T13:33:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:33:43","slug":"doors-locked-in-aftermath-of-lehigh-acres-gaming-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/02\/doors-locked-in-aftermath-of-lehigh-acres-gaming-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Doors Locked in Aftermath of Lehigh Acres Gaming Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38916\" title=\"Luxxor\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Luxxor.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Followup &#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Detectives with the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office Special Investigations Unit conducted a six-week investigation into the Luxxor Gaming Arcade in Lehigh Acres, after receiving a tip that they were running an illegal gaming business.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives conducted surveillance and several undercover operations which confirmed the illegal activity. Two search warrants were executed resulting in the collection of over fifty gaming machines and seizure of $5,034.00 in U.S. currency and approximately $4,800.00 in ancillary equipment\/furniture.<\/p>\n<p>Criminal charges are pending.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The doors were closed early Thursday morning at Luxxor Games, a day after investigators executed a search warrant.<\/p>\n<p>The Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office wrapped up an investigation and deputies said the warrant was served after a tip was received about illegal gambling. Witnesses said they saw detectives hauling away equipment.<\/p>\n<p>There was one big truck and there were cops in masks and some other cops without masks, said one eyewitness of the raid. &#8220;It looked like they were taking everything away from the building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill in 2013 that cracked down on gaming and adult arcades though many locations stayed open.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies said no one was arrested at Luxxor on Wednesday, but some charges are still pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Followup &#8212;- Detectives with the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office Special Investigations Unit conducted a six-week investigation into the Luxxor Gaming Arcade in Lehigh Acres, after receiving a tip that they&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":38916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}