Illegal Slots Discovered in California

Detectives discovered illegal slot machines at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Santa Maria, a city on the Central Coast of California. After a month-long investigation, detectives found and seized four Las Vegas style slot.

The building in which they were found is located at the 200 block of East Battles. People inside the building declined to talk on camera, but maintained that the slots incident should not overshadow all the good that the Veterans of Foreign Wars does for the community.

Investigators seized the machines, along with $5,000 and detectives cited and released business owner, 71-year-old Russel Dobels of Santa Maria.

Larry Reed, owner of a neighboring barber shop, said, “It’s real quiet. You don’t even know that they’re there unless you walk out to my mailbox, and you can smell the smoke from the barbeque bits or  the cars, and the parking lots full of people”.

To be eligible for membership in the Veterans of Foreign Wars, you must have honorable service with the US Armed Forces and have overseas service in a foreign conflict.

Dobels was given a misdemeanor citation for illegal possession of slot machines.

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