Eutaw, AL – State police have raided Greenetrack and another gambling business in Greene County and seized more 700 bingo machines.
Attorney General Luther Strange says search warrants were served at Greenetrack in Eutaw and Frontier Bingo in Knoxville on Wednesday morning. The seizures were conducted by the attorney general's staff and the state police officers.
Strange says the raid occurred after Greenetrack refused his request to turn over some machines and let a court determine their legality. He said his only alternative was seize machines that state law enforcement agents had determined to be illegal.
Greenetrack reopened bingo machines in March after having been out of the business since July 2010, when state police seized 800 electronic bingo machines that resembled slot machines. Its new machines looked more like computer terminals.
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