Birmingham Bingo Bust

You are here: Home » Bham Aggravator » Birmingham Bingo Bust

Print This

Posted on August 17th, 2009 in Bham Aggravator

It’s 6 a.m. on a Monday. Do you know where your bingo is?

Monday morning, about 60 patrons were playing away at a Roebuck VFW bingo hall when state authorities raided the establishment. Agents from the ABI and state police have been investigating the bingo parlor for about a month at the request of Jefferson County District Attorney Brandon Falls.

Several cities in Jefferson County, including Birmingham, have passed ordinances to legalize bingo, but Falls has told the Birmingham City Council that the local ordinances do not supersede state law.

Falls told The Birmingham News that the Roebuck facility appeared more like a casino than a charity. Agents seized as many as 1,000 machines.

The Birmingham City Council has postponed granting new bingo permits until after the council election later this month.

Source: Birmingham News

cresentcrow44

Im trying to reach a John Collins in reference to bingo.

SBurks

There was a huge problem with where this facility chose to locate! The parking lot was jammed, and those of us who wanted to visit the other stores there had to either walk two blocks or park illegally to pick up a pizza or prescription.I think that they should move it to the other side of McRaes, where there are fewer merchants and lots of available parking.

jsteele410423785

well with all the people in Alabama needing jobs and the lack of industry jobs. Seems like such places would hire lots of worker and pay on a up scale pay rate. Such things as insurances, benifits, etc. would help the people of Alabama greatly. People must remember that much of the money will go to the Birmingham schools and make it easier on people that can't aford to carry the cost of supplies that the schools don't have the budget to pay themselfs. I can only state if you don't support Charity Bingo then you might not want to go to one yourself LOL LOL. Welcome to Alabama

BingoBiloba

Well, it seems that the bingo lottery was won by the police this time. I sincerely can't understand why bingo is not legal as long as other gambling games are.

blog comments powered by Disqus

Car Trouble: Smoot named in state audit

A audit conducted by the Alabama Public Examiner’s Office has found that Jefferson County Commissioner [...]

Katopodis to remain behind bars

Former County Commissioner John Katopodis will remain behind bars until his October sentencing. Defense lawyers [...]

Birmingham elections set for August 25

The DOJ has approved the City of Birmingham’s request to move the City Council and Board of Education elections to Aug. 25. The elections were originally set for Oct. 13. The city requested the change so Birmingham could comply with the Help America Vote Act, which requires six weeks between elections and runoffs (previous Birmingham elections had allowed only three weeks) to allow for the arrival and counting of overseas and absentee ballots.

Popular
Latest Comments
Featured
Tags

WEEKLY PICKS: do more now

FRIDAY, NOV. 20

GREEK MYTHOLOGY FOR THE MODERN AGE: To review: Eurydice was ...
SATURDAY, NOV. 21

REQUIEM FOR A SCHEME: The featured composition at Saturday’s Alabama ...
SUNDAY, NOV. 22

BLAZE THE TRAIL: Or, at the very least, help trim ...

Weekly Tweets

Can Jefferson County break the bank? The meaning of Jefferson County's suit against banking behemoth JPMorgan: http://bit.ly/2JfcKk #bham 11 hrs ago
@WadeOnTweets I don't see Dr. Davis on Twitter any time soon. We're plugging your blogging academy classes in next week's Weekly Picks btw. 1 day ago
Nice to see @bhamterminal 's @acnatta on Fox6 w BSC's Natalie Davis discussing #bham mayoral race. Video @WadeOnTweets: http://bit.ly/1o93gZ 1 day ago
@brightsides Thanks for comments on last week's cover. It was designed by Jeremy Markham (http://bit.ly/1l7Yx1). More: http://bit.ly/4bvRoK 1 day ago
Forest Perk Coffee opened today--new coffee shop on Clairmont (next to Piggly Wiggly). Just went by there--the coffee's good. Check it out. 1 day ago
Shout out to @DNicholAdams for her tweeting of the #bham mayoral forum tonight. She did a great job. Thanks for the live feed! 2 days ago
Also slated to appear: William Jason Sumner (?) & Jimmy Snow. No Smitherman or Hoyt? Election Dec. 8. Educate yourselves. We'll help. #bham 3 days ago
Mayoral forum information came from Delta Sigma Theta Alum association, who is putting on forum and was kind enough to call me back. #bham 3 days ago
William Bell, Patrick Cooper, Emory Anthony, Scott Douglas, Stephannie Huey, Jody Trautwein and others coming to #bham mayoral forum tonight 3 days ago
Don't forget there's a mayoral forum tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Huffman High, and a meet & greet Thursday at Highland Hotel, 5-7 p.m. #bham 3 days ago
I think if you count the fact that council started about 30 minutes late, this may be the quickest council meeting I've ever seen. #bham 3 days ago
Council meeting over except for old & new business. Hoyt says he is the fried turkey king, and will fry turkeys when done w/ politics #bham 3 days ago
More updates...