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Waley Ming Wei Lee, 46, was arrested for having illegal video poker machines at his place of business. Lee is the owner of Tres Amigo Lavaderia and according to police he was running an illegal video poker ring.

Lee is accused of running illegal video poker machines out of his Laundromat and paying his customers cash for their winnings. According to police this is the first arrest for video poker machines in many years. They have had very little problems with people running the illegal video poker machines since the law was passed prohibiting them.

Lee has been charged with commercial gambling and pirating compact discs. He was arrested by the Hall County Multi-Agency Narcotics Squad, and their commander Scott Ware said that they had been investigating him for months.

They had received a complaint from someone saying that he had illegal video poker machines, and that he had made cash payouts to undercover police officers while playing the illegal machines. They had cashed in winning tickets in the amounts of $45, $40, an $25.

In addition to the illegal video poker machines, during the raid police also found more than 400 pirated compact discs and 29 pirated DVD movies for sale.

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