{"id":94391,"date":"2025-07-26T15:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94391\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T15:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T15:25:09","slug":"san-diego-police-shut-down-2-alleged-illegal-gambling-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94391\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Police shut down 2 alleged illegal gambling operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/La-Mesa-Homicide-Arrest-e1529090441647.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/La-Mesa-Homicide-Arrest.jpg\" alt=\"SDPD cruiser\" class=\"wp-image-58403\"\/><\/a>A San Diego Police cruiser. (Photo courtesy OnScene.TV)<\/p>\n<p>San Diego police officers have shut down two alleged illegal gambling operations within two days, seizing cash and slot machines and arresting 21 people, authorities said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The first location was early Thursday morning at a private residence on Fairmount Avenue in the Azalea Park neighborhood, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from patrol, SWAT, Vice and the FBI Violent Crime Task Force served a warrant at that location and found 12 illegal gambling machines, two handguns, ammunition, narcotics and more than $1,000 in cash, police officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrested eight people on charges related to gambling and narcotics, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The second bust was at Rocky\u2019s Market in the Teralta East neighborhood, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers discovered an alleged illegal gambling operation while attempting to detain a suspect, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>TheY got a warrant that led to the seizure of nine gambling machines, $477 in cash and a replica firearm, police said. Four people were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese illegal gambling dens don\u2019t just bring bets \u2014 they bring crime, drugs, violence, weapons and constant disturbances for neighbors,\u201d the SDPD said in its statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013City News Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Diego Police cruiser. (Photo courtesy OnScene.TV) San Diego police officers have shut down two alleged illegal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,62320,17536,3549,7264,31009,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-94391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-gambling-operations","12":"tag-illegal","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-sdpd","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114920234856889995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}