{"id":40734,"date":"2022-09-10T18:07:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T22:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=40734"},"modified":"2022-09-10T18:07:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T22:07:48","slug":"3-georgia-women-arrested-in-coin-operated-gambling-machine-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=40734","title":{"rendered":"3 Georgia women arrested in coin operated gambling machine bust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"\/tag\/Homerville\">HOMERVILLE<\/a> &#8212; Three Georgia women were arrested Thursday and charged with operating unlicensed coin operated gambling machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, 61-year-old Gloria Marshall, 65-year-old Patricia Thomas, and 55-year-old Lisa Trimble, all of Homerville, were arrested and charged with operating unlicensed COAMS (Felony), commercial gambling (Felony), and keeping a gambling place\u00a0(Misdemeanor). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GBI\u2019s Commercial Gambling Unit, along with the Clinch County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the Homerville Police Department, the Georgia State Patrol, and in cooperation with the Georgia Lottery Corporation executed search warrants at one unlicensed\u00a0location at 3665 Pearson Highway in Homerville, and one residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the course of a lengthy investigation, agents say they discovered an unlicensed business operating Coin Operated Amusement Machines where customers were receiving cash payouts for winning credits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Georgia,\u00a0such machines must be properly licensed by the Georgia Lottery and credits may only be redeemed for lottery tickets or store merchandise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marshall faces additional charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession with intent to distribute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=30]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOMERVILLE &#8212; Three Georgia women were arrested Thursday and charged with operating unlicensed coin operated gambling machines. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, 61-year-old Gloria Marshall, 65-year-old Patricia Thomas, and 55-year-old Lisa Trimble, all of Homerville, were arrested and charged with operating unlicensed COAMS (Felony), commercial gambling (Felony), and keeping a gambling place\u00a0(Misdemeanor). The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10643,11292,12231],"class_list":["post-40734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-clinch-county","tag-homerville","tag-southeast-georgia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}