(ONTARIO, Ohio)— Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced today that agents with the Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) executed a search warrant at a business suspected of operating as an illegal gambling establishment.
Authorities executed the warrant at the Lucky Duck Cafe, 351 Lexington-Springmill Road North, in Ontario. Ontario is located near Mansfield, Ohio, in Richland County.
Agents seized evidence, but no arrests were made. The investigation is ongoing.
BCI was assisted by the Attorney General's Charitable Law Section, the Ontario Police Department, METRICH Enforcement Unit, and the Ohio Investigative Unit.
Attorney General DeWine recently formed the Internet Gaming Advisory Unit within his office to help local law enforcement and prosecutors' offices with staff experts in investigating and prosecuting internet sweepstakes cases.
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