North Carolina Police Bust 39 for Playing PokerIt's the Second Large Poker Raid in a Year |
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North Carolina continued the “Carolina way” of busting up poker games when authorities raided a home where people were playing poker for cash. Fayetteville, North Carolina, police charged 39 people for illegal gambling, a misdemeanor, and the owner of the home where the games were being spread was also charged with illegal alcohol sales.
After searching the cars, police levied charges against several of the players after finding illegal narcotics. Some of the players charged for illegal gambling are members of the Army, stationed at nearby Fort Brag.
Taken in the raid were three poker tables, two pool tables, four flat-screen televisions, surveillance cameras, and $12,000 in cash. An additional $11,000 was seized from the home’s owner.
Last year, North Carolina police busted a tournament in Benson where they seized $71,000 of the players’ money. Rounded up in that raid were professional players Michael Gracz and Chris Bell. They both make their homes in Raleigh.
In Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, more than 100 people have been charged for illegal gambling for playing poker over the last two years. Four of those charged are fighting the authorities in court. South Carolina law doesn’t clearly establish poker as illegal.
That’s not the case in North Carolina, where playing poker for cash is absolutely illegal. The state’s highest court struck down a challenge to redefine poker as a game of skill, putting it in the same category as blackjack and craps in the eyes of the law.
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