{"id":1076,"date":"2013-04-22T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2013-04-19T21:37:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T21:37:38","slug":"operation-bishop-to-banish-eight-liners-in-cameron-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Operation Bishop to Banish Eight-Liners in Cameron County"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Money is seized at the M77 Game Room in Olmito. The eight-liner establishment was one of five raided Saturday during Operation Bishop. (Cameron County DA)<\/p><\/div>\n

Cameron County, state and federal law enforcement agencies began a shutdown of all eight-liner establishments in the County Saturday upon the culmination of an 18-month criminal investigation known as Operation Bishop.<\/p>\n

Five eight-liner establishments were raided: Pink Suite near La Feria; Lucky Place Arcade in Harlingen; Golden Arcade in Harlingen; M77 Game Room in Olmito; and Sahara Inn in Brownsville. Eight arrests were made with owners and managers charged with various gambling violations and at least one arrestee charged with organized crime. The 456 seized machines will be forfeited and destroyed.<\/p>\n

Operation Bishop will continue through December until all eight-liner establishments in the County are closed. Two hundred eight-liner establishments currently operate in the County. Property owners will also be placed on notice that they may face losing their properties if they continue to allow eight-liners in their buildings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe average eight-liner business generates thousands of dollars in revenue daily,\u201d said District Attorney Luis V. Saenz.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is revenue known to benefit organized crime. This is revenue that doesn\u2019t benefit our community, because it\u2019s not being spent in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is estimated that the eight-liner industry generates at least $300 million annually. The money is known to leave the County and even Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen money stays in the community, sales tax revenue goes to your local governments and allows them to provide resources for you \u2013<\/p>\n

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Law enforcement officers remove money from eight-liner machines at the Sahara Inn in Brownsville Saturday during a raid. Operation Bishop began 18 months ago and will end once all of 200 establishments are closed in Cameron County. (Cameron County DA)<\/p><\/div>\n

better streets, more libraries, more services, etc. Let\u2019s not forget job creation and sustainability,\u201d Saenz added. \u201cI look forward to the day I can run a steam roller over them.\u201d
\nOperation Bishop is the first operation of its kind in terms of number of agencies working together to curtail what is known as a criminal epidemic in Cameron County.<\/p>\n

Agencies and entities participating in Operation Bishop are: Cameron County Judge\u2019s Office and Cameron County Emergency Management; Cameron County District Attorney\u2019s Office; Cameron Sheriff\u2019s Department; Constables Offices; DEA; FBI; the Department of Homeland Security; Willacy County EMS; Brownsville PD; Harlingen PD; and San Benito PD.
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The Cameron County District Attorney\u2019s Office and Sheriff\u2019s Office staff county money seized during a five-location eight-liner raid Saturday in Cameron County. An estimated $56,322 was counted, but did not include seized ATMs that had not been processed. (Cameron County DA)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cameron County, state and federal law enforcement agencies began a shutdown of all eight-liner establishments in the County Saturday upon the culmination of an 18-month criminal investigation known as Operation Bishop. Five eight-liner establishments were raided: Pink Suite near La Feria; Lucky Place Arcade in Harlingen; Golden Arcade in Harlingen; M77 Game Room in Olmito; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}