{"id":480,"date":"2025-05-09T07:54:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T07:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2025-05-14T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:05:10","slug":"north-carolina-cops-seize-28k-and-86-illegal-gambling-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/north-carolina-cops-seize-28k-and-86-illegal-gambling-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Cops Seize $28k and 86 Illegal Gambling Machines\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\/2025\/05\/09\/north-carolina-cops-seize-28k-and-86-illegal-gambling-machines\/\">North Carolina Cops Seize $28k and 86 Illegal Gambling Machines\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\">Vegas Slots Online News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\"><\/div>\n<p>Cops in North Carolina have bust an illegal gambling arcade, seizing $26,510 and 86 unlawful gaming machines.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qcnews.com\/crime-and-public-safety\/illegal-gambling-raid-cmpd-seizes-26k-86-machines-gun\/\">According to <em>Queen City News<\/em> on Thursday<\/a>, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) raided the premises on April 29.<\/p>\n<p>The CMPD was reportedly executing a search warrant in response to multiple complaints from the local community that illegal gambling activities were taking place at the arcade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>five months of investigative work by the CMPD<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The bust followed around five months of investigative work by the CMPD into reports of illegal gambling activities and the property\u2019s link to various violent crimes in the vicinity. Cops also seized a Ruger 9mm pistol during the bust.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The CMPD arrested the arcade\u2019s manager Xiong Zhang, 45, and charged him with \u201cmultiple felonies and misdemeanors related to illegal gambling operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cops also arrested unlicensed, armed security guard Darian Shaw, 29, for \u201caiding &amp; abetting gambling and providing unlicensed, armed security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Local press reports that the investigation is still active and ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\/2025\/05\/09\/north-carolina-cops-seize-28k-and-86-illegal-gambling-machines\/\">North Carolina Cops Seize $28k and 86 Illegal Gambling Machines\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\">Vegas Slots Online News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The post North Carolina Cops Seize $28k and 86 Illegal Gambling Machines\u00a0 appeared first on Vegas Slots Online News. Cops in North Carolina have bust an illegal gambling arcade, seizing $26,510 and 86 unlawful gaming machines.\u00a0According to Queen City News on Thursday, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) raided the premises on April 29. The CMPD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masteringphsyics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}