White Hall Gaming Remains Closed

Police raided the White Hall Gaming Center last week and seized 101 suspected illegal gaming and slot machines. They also took more than a half a million dollars in cash in addition to the slot machines stating that they are illegal and should not be run on the premises. The gaming center is obviously disagreeing with the decision.

The gaming center is still closed after the slot machine raid, and police are still in custody of both the slot machines and the more than $560,000 that they took at the time of the raid. However, the attorney for the charity that was running the slot machines says that the machines and the cash should not have been seized in the raid. He maintains that the group has done nothing wrong.

Their attorney, Collins Pettaway, says that he is trying to get the judge to issue a protective order and to stop the seizures. He has filed for a declaratory judgment, a restraining order, a complaint for permanent injunction and a motion to quash the search warrant in Lowndes County Circuit Court. The problem is that as soon as these motions were filed the judge recused himself from the case.

Former Supreme Court Justice Mark Kennedy is now handling the case and David Barber, who is the Commander of Governor Bob Riley’s Task Force on Illegal Gambling did not say whether or not there were more raids planned for the future. Riley has made it very clear that he is bound and determined to crack down on illegal slot machines and gambling within the state, so it can be expected that this is not the last one of these we have seen.

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