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Enforcing U.S. Online Casinos Laws

Internet gambling in the United States, whether you agree with the law or not, is unlawful. But that hasn’t stopped some operators from attempting to fill the gap and facilitate online casinos gambling now that the gambling via the internet is getting increasingly harder. The North Carolina police department announced a major raid of three online casinos and gambling locations that were operating in full view of the law enforcement officials.

The raid took place in Galveston, North Carolina and a more than three month investigation into the online casinos gambling operation was underway before last week’s police raid. According to the police, the operators of the illegal gambling facility were not really attempting to hide their operation from law enforcement. The Chief of the Cherryville Police Department, Woody Burgess, (a neighboring town) commented that “you could ride by and see computer monitors turning like a slot machine.”

It’s surprising that the operators would choose such a blatantly obvious method for operating the online casinos considering how hard the U.S. government has come down on offshore companies participating in internet gambling activities. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was passed in October of 2006 and makes the actual operators of the online gambling businesses fully criminally liable while the players and patrons are largely protected from federal legislation – some individual states have their own separate laws concerning internet gambling.

So considering the national ban on online casinos gambling, the issue is pretty black and white for Chief of the Gastonia Police Department, Terry Sult; “Someday the legislature might legalize gambling but until that time comes we’re going to enforce the law.” There are several companies and operators that will face charges related to the raid in the coming weeks.