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A joint po­lice and tax en­force­ment ex­er­cise in the St Joseph dis­trict has un­cov­ered near­ly $1.9 mil­lion in un­paid gam­ing tax­es af­ter checks at sev­er­al li­censed premis­es on Thurs­day.

Be­tween 2.30 pm and 7 pm, of­fi­cers in­spect­ed five es­tab­lish­ments and found mul­ti­ple breach­es of li­cens­ing con­di­tions and the Gam­bling Act, in­clud­ing the il­le­gal pos­ses­sion of gam­ing ma­chines.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, one es­tab­lish­ment was or­dered to pay $156,000 for six wall ma­chines and one roulette de­vice, while an­oth­er was as­sessed $192,000 for 12 wall ma­chines and one roulette de­vice.