Montgomery, AL – Alabama's new attorney general says he plans to keep up the kind of enforcement that closed three of the four privately operated gambling halls that had reopened in recent weeks.
But Attorney General Luther Strange won't say if the last remaining gambling hall at Greenetrack in west Alabama is in his sights.
Strange's staff helped Jefferson County Sheriff Mike Hale raid the recently reopened Anchor Club in Brighton on Monday and seize its 500 gambling machines on grounds they were illegal. Two other gambling halls that had opened in Jefferson County in the last two weeks closed after the raid.
Strange says he helped with the Jefferson County operation because the sheriff wanted it.
Greene County Sheriff Jonathan Benison says he hasn't been contacted by the attorney general about Greenetrack.
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