Video Poker 24/7 - Police Bust Illegal Video Poker Machines

Video Poker 247 - Police Bust Illegal Video Poker Machines

Police have arrested Letteria Lamacchia, a 26 year old female clerk at Tory’s Variety Store for illegal video poker machine payouts. Lamacchia was on duty the day that an undercover police detective came in and played the video poker games and then paid him out after he won. It is illegal to own the video poker machines in the state of Pennsylvania and Lamacchia was arrested on the spot.

Police closed down the store as soon as it was discovered that there was indeed illegal video poker gambling going on. They had been receiving complaints from people alleging that there was illegal video poker playing going on in the store, and when police attempted to play they saw first hand that there was, in fact, illegal video poker betting going on.

They could have kept the video poker machines had people been able to play for fun, but playing for cash is against the law. When the officer went in to play, the video poker machine took both paper and coin money, and when she gained so many credits - the clerk paid her out of the convenience store’s money.

When police looked into it further, they found that there was more than $140,000 in the store safe, $1,000 in the register in the store, and $3,000 in quarters in the video poker machine. Police are now trying to decide if they are going to charge the business owner as well.

The FBI has been called in to investigate as the county wants to make sure that this is not part of some sort of illegal video poker ring. They say that they do not know how long the video poker machines have been functioning there.

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