The man who erst ran a Boynton Beach, Fla. arcade was charged with 32 counts of wrongful ownership of slot machines. He was set-aside(p) this week following a hunting inward June of the Crowne Arcade.

Antonio Magnone, 35, whose permanent turn to is Weirton, W.V. was apprehended of late inward Ohio. He was extradited to Florida and was held inward the Palm Beach County Jail before an visual aspect this calendar week inward local court.

Bond was place at $15,000. The surmise also faces money laundering, keeping a play house, and existence an agent or employee of a play domiciliate charges.

The hitch follows an investigation spanning several months. It started lastly November when the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office got a lead in that location could be illegal play taking put inward the arcade, WPTV, a Sunshine State TV station, reported.

When visiting the business, sheriff’s investigators spotted to a greater extent than 30 “Las Vegas title picture expansion slot machines” inside, stay documents revealed. The devices paid come out cash in prizes to winning players, WPTV said.

Also, when a participant play $10, the colonnade assign another $10 of domiciliate money into the slot machine, authorities said. Players could win as a great deal as $10,000 inwards the arcade, WPTV said.

Two Others Charged

The latest bust on the colonnade took put on June 6. It was over a yr ago, on March 18, 2021, the same colonnade was raided by Broward County, Fla. detectives. The search led to the check of a man identified as Magnone’s brother, Vincenzo Magnone, 38.

Among the charges against him were bookmaking and keeping a play house, the written report said. Vincenzo Magnone has pled shamed in the case. He was sentenced to quintuplet years of probation, the BocaPost.com, a Sunshine State online intelligence site, reported.

After his brother’s arrest, Antonio Magnone became responsible for the arcade’s management, authorities said. On June 8, the brothers sold the colonnade to an entity called Anjaneya Investments for $450,000, WPTV said. The colonnade was renamed Game ex Arcade utmost month.

A woman identified as the arcade’s stage business manager, Marquita Margadonna, 66, was also charged after the June 6 hunt of the arcade. Her charges include unlawful possession of a one-armed bandit machine, money laundering, keeping a gaming house, and beingness an federal agent or employee of a play house, WPTV said.

She has posted bond. Her royal court case is pending.

Based on their investigation, authorities approximate the slot machines at the arcade are worth almost $200,000.

Eight Gambling Raids

In an unrelated case, shoemaker's last Dec deputies raided eighter from Decatur allegedly illegal gaming properties in Florida’s Seminole County. Some 18 suspects were charged.

Charges include racketeering, keeping a domiciliate of gaming, delivering gaming machines, and running an illegal lottery. The illegal operations were closed down.

The casinos were operating inwards Altamonte Springs, Sanford, Casselberry, and inward unincorporated Seminole County. Many of the dens were set upward inward disinvest plazas and had no more distinguishing signs or were disguised as other business.

In unity case, a den was disguised as a hock shop. Another was marked as a billiard hall.