Ohio AG creates Internet cafe advisory unit, search warrants executed

Associated Press

WKYC Web Staff

COLUMBUS -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has created an internal unit to help police officers and prosecutors investigate illegal gambling at storefront gambling-like operations known as Internet cafes.

Early Wednesday afternoon, DeWine and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty will announce the execution of six search warrants on six separate internet cafes that are currently open and operating illegally.

Several bank accounts were also seized within the operation.

Channel 3's Tom Beres will bring you more on this story later Wednesday.

Wednesday's sweep is a collaborative investigation by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office working in connection with the Ohio Attorney General's Office,  Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Ohio Investigative Unit of the Ohio Department of Public Safety, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Secret Service, Parma Heights Police Department, and several law enforcement agencies in the state of New Jersey .

DeWine, long a critic of the businesses' operations and their lack of regulation, says a recent state appeals court decision made it clear the cafes are conducting illegal gambling.

DeWine said at an earlier news conference Wednesday to once again press lawmakers to pass a bill regulating the cafes, calling the approach he's been forced to take "the hard way."

The cafes' status has been the subject of intense lobbying in Columbus, with the Ohio House voting last month to approve a crackdown on the operations.

Backers of the cafes say they are legal and help the economy.

WKYC-TV/Associated Press

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