The Florida Gaming Control Commission (FGCC), with assistance from the St. Petersburg Police Department, worked together to take down two illegal arcades.
The two locations in St. Petersburg were the focus of enforcement actions of the FGCC, as Florida law strictly regulates licensed gambling in the state, and both the Fun Arcade and the 49th Street Arcade were of interest to investigators.
FGCC and Florida Police work to tackle illegal arcades
Agents of the FGCC and the St. Petersburg Police Department reportedly seized thirty illegal slot machines and gambling video game tables from the Fun Arcade based at 90116th Street South.
Alongside the devices, $15,654 in cash was taken by the agents. They also arrested Ghazwan Samaan and Anthony Jamel Abuead on one count each of possession of slot machines and one count of keeping a gambling house…