Portage County Sheriff's Office searches Streetsboro internet café - Record-Courier

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The Portage County sheriff's cause and convulsive transgression portion and SWAT squad executed a hunt warrant astatine a Streetsboro net café suspected of operating arsenic an "illegal gambling establishment" connected Wednesday, the sheriff's bureau said successful a media merchandise posted connected Facebook Thursday morning.

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The sheriff's bureau did not place the business, different than it is connected authorities Route 14, nor did it respond instantly to requests for further information.

Streetsboro Police Lt. Rich Polivka said the sheriff's bureau notified the constabulary section connected Wednesday that it would beryllium conducting immoderate benignant of cognition astatine LinDee's Internet Café connected authorities Route 14. Polivka, however, said helium did not person immoderate further information.

"They notified america arsenic a information measurement that they were going to beryllium doing thing implicit there," helium said.

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The media merchandise says the hunt followed a four-month investigation. Several individuals were recovered wrong the concern astatine the time. They were released pending further investigation.

Evidence recovered astatine the country included U.S. currency, miscellaneous paperwork and different items "associated with amerciable gambling and games of chance," said the release.

The cause and convulsive transgression portion volition consult with the Portage County Prosecutor's Office connected imaginable charges.

Online searches for a telephone fig for LinDee's Internet Café were unsuccessful.

Reporter Jeff Saunders tin beryllium reached astatine jsaunders@recordpub.com.

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