| | |  | Last Updated: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |  | | | Officials Vow to Stop Illegal Casino Gambling
- Wednesday, 5 Jul 2006
Representatives from more than a dozen local police agencies met with prosecutors at the Cameron County Courthouse Friday to confer over an ongoing campaign against 8-liners and other forms of illegal video gambling. District Attorney Armando Villalobos said he asked every local law enforcement agency to synchronize the ‘battle plan’ with his office’s anti-gambling task force. The agenda of the meeting was to consolidate a united plan against illegal gambling so that it could be wiped out once and for all.
Villalobos said that if these illegal gambling organizations are shut down in one place they will simply sprout up in another. He said that the plan was to formulate a plan that could shut them in one swoop, once and for all. There are 15 video gambling casinos open in Cameron County, according to District Attorney’s Office figures. Villalobos said raids in Brownsville, Los Fresnos and Port Isabel recently pushed the gambling activity to Harlingen, San Benito and La Feria.
One police chief said that his department has performed investigations at several video gambling casinos in Harlingen but that only two remain in the city. During the meeting, the law enforcement agencies were taught how the casinos operate and were also explained various techniques that have proven successful in other cases of illegal gambling clampdowns.
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