The San Diego Police Department raided an illegal gambling operation at a City Heights home on January 3, a post on their site confirmed. official Facebook page.
What looked like a “regular house” was filled with slot machines, a stolen gun and about $4,500 in cash in what turned out to be an illegal casino.
Police found 28 people inside the property and made nine arrests, although charges are still pending for those arrested at the crime scene.
This follows several incidents last year of illegal gambling dens operating in the area. In July 2025, agents learned of such living room in a house located near Azalea Park.
The same month, the police carried out another operation. A SWAT team was dispatched to the location where 12 suspects arrested and 12 illegal slot machines arrested were seized during the robbery.
But that wasn’t all, as another raid took place in December last year.
Another illegal casino seized in City Heights before Christmas
Before the most recent raid, San Diego police announced in December that they searched two locations after investigating illegal gambling operations in the City Heights area.
As such, 62 illegal slot machinesmoney and drugs were found at both sites, while several people were arrested in connection with the illegal hideouts.
Agents seized 23 illegal slot machines from a business on El Cajon Boulevard, before serving a second warrant in a building on 3rd Avenue in Chula Vista.
Police seized 39 other machines there, as well as a large sum of cash following the raid.
The latest raid on an illegal gambling operation marks the fourth time in just under a year that police have discovered such a den located in the City Heights neighborhood.
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