Authorities raided a corner bar in Southeast Baltimore yesterday and seized three video gaming machines that police said were used for illegal gambling, part of an effort by the Maryland Comptroller's Office to crack down on such devices in taverns and liquor establishments across the state.
Baltimore police vice detectives carrying a pry bar and a sledge hammer walked into the Colonial Inn at Eastern Avenue and Washington Street, ordered a handful of patrons to leave and seized the machines and $1,753. Police and agents with the comptroller's office also walked out with beer boxes stuffed with financial records.
The 3 p.m. raid was the second in as many days linked to the initiative announced in June by Comptroller Peter Franchot, who has vowed to use the tax collector's office to rid bars of gaming machines that in many cases are licensed for "amusement purposes only" but which state officials contend are really used for gambling.
For the complete story, please see Peter Hermann Video gaming machines seized, The Baltimore Sun, September 8, 2008.
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