HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – The Honolulu Police Department says a new operation is not only shutting down illegal game rooms, it’s keeping them closed for good.
“Every time one of these game rooms comes into a neighborhood, it brings along with them guns and violence and drugs and other issues,” said Honolulu City councilmember Tyler Dos Santos-Tam.
For years, HPD has been raiding illegal game rooms on Oahu, but dozens still persist, partly because of some landlords are willing to accept their huge rent payments…