Chicago police said they shut down a gambling parlor operating in the heart of the city's Chinatown neighborhood after officers spotted patrons playing video poker machines there last week.
Officers with the Vice Section’s license investigation team executed a search warrant on Tuesday at the parlor operating at the rear of the business in the 2300 block of South Wentworth Avenue.
Inside, officers seized 21 unlicensed video poker machines, as well as more than $38,000 cash from the money boxes inside them. Daily payout receipts and player tickets were recovered with computer equipment and machine circuit boards.
Police said they were turned on to the gambling spot last week when they discovered numerous amusement devices in plain sight at the rear of the business, with several people engaged in play.
The business has been the scene of previous gambling complaint.
The business' owners, Debby Tsao, 56, of the 2900 block of South Archer Avenue, was charged with a municipal violation of gambling and misdemeanor keeping a gambling place
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