{"id":161911,"date":"2026-04-10T00:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/161911\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:15:24","slug":"over-400-illegal-skills-games-seized-in-western-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/161911\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 400 Illegal Skills Games Seized in Western Pennsylvania | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"vlcsnap-2026-04-08-14h52m40s692.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Two western Pennsylvanian amusement companies have pleaded guilty to the distribution of illegal video game devices.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo Skills Games, Inc. and J.J. Amusement, Inc. have agreed to forfeiture $5 million in assets and the immediate closure of these devices to resolve these issues.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 400 illegal devices were seized in several locations in western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis resolution secures a multimillion-dollar forfeiture for the Commonwealth, while assuring the companies will cease to exist,\u201d Attorney General Sunday stated. \u201cI commend our partners at the Pennsylvania State Police for helping disband a large-scale operation that involved slot machines essentially dressed up as skill games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This case was prosecuted by the Office of Attorney General\u2019s Gaming Enforcement Section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two western Pennsylvanian amusement companies have pleaded guilty to the distribution of illegal video game devices. Buffalo Skills&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24387,1856,28,30,29,65859,1979],"class_list":["post-161911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-illegal-gambling","tag-law-enforcement","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-seizure","tag-skill-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}