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The Huntsville Police Department has arrested a man suspected of being involved in an alleged illegal gambling operation in Alabama.
A Huntsville Police Department SWAT team executed a search warrant early Tuesday, Jan. 6, as part of an investigation into a suspected illegal gambling operation in the 3600 block of 7th Avenue. This led to the arrest of 59-year-old Robert Lorenzo Gray Jr.
Investigators also seized 21 slot machine hard drives, two firearms, marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Gray was later charged with promoting gambling, possession of gambling records in the first degree, possession of marijuana in the second degree and possession of drug paraphernalia.
“The investigation is ongoing and additional arrests may be made,” the Huntsville Police Department said. a declaration.
Illegal Gambling in Alabama
This is not the first similar investigation to take place in Alabama, with search warrants also executed in recent months in Pike County And Fort Paynewith illegal slot machines and records seized in both operations.
There is also growing pressure to tackle illegal online gambling, with concern grows about how these operators could affect Alabama’s youth.
An official Senate letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi highlighted how illicit offshore gambling operations “allow minors to engage in unregulated sports betting and gaming without oversight, unlike legal domestic gambling operations.” Additionally, the bipartisan letter explains how “these illegal overseas gambling operations expose young people to numerous harms, including allowing them to gamble without age verification, on credit, and providing no resources for gambling addictions.”
With Alabama being one of the few states with an almost complete ban on gambling, with some limited exceptions to betting on horse and dog races and electronic bingo machines, this push to crack down on illegal gambling is spread across both physical and online spaces.
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