Kim’s Gift Shop, Red Top Food Mart, Mack’s Express/Smart Mart, and Gift Shop in Cartersville and Sunoco in White were, according to officials, simultaneously raided by more than 40 agents from the Bartow-Cartersville Drug Task Force and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Commercial Gambling Unit in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Revenue and Georgia Lottery Corp.
Five businesses in Bartow County suspected of violating Georgia’s commercial gambling laws were raided by law enforcement.
Officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation say that the coordinated commercial gambling bust resulted in the arrest and incarceration of five people as well as money and other evidence, which pointed to commercial gambling operations being run at the locations, being seized by agents. (READ SO: GEORGIA UP TO LEGALIZE BILL IN FAVOR OF CASINOS)
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said that while all five of the Bartow County businesses were licensed to possess “Coin Operated Amusement Machines,” during their investigation the agency discovered that cash payouts were being given to customers for winning credits. Under Georgia law, winning credits are to be redeemed for store merchandise or lottery tickets only.
