{"id":196047,"date":"2026-05-18T22:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196047\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:51:09","slug":"police-seize-91000-from-illegal-gambling-game-at-pittsburgh-area-social-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196047\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seize $91,000 from illegal gambling game at Pittsburgh-area social club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania liquor control enforcement agents say they&#8217;ve stopped an illegal gambling operation in Washington County. Officials say it was happening at a social club where they recovered tens of thousands of dollars in alleged illegal betting revenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said they seized over $91,000 from the Independent Political Club in Washington, Pennsylvania, where they were playing Queen of Hearts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the club did not have a county-issued small games of chance license. Officer Wayne Wright with the Pennsylvania State Liquor Control Enforcement says even if the club had a license, the game of Queen&#8217;s Hearts isn&#8217;t on the state&#8217;s list of approved legal small games of chance. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 52 cards are set out on a table,&#8221; Wright explained. &#8220;You buy chances to get the card. Obviously getting the queen of hearts means you win and get the jackpot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to law enforcement, these games can actually last for a while.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They can go on for various lengths of time,&#8221; said Wright. &#8220;This specific game went on for 10 months approximately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officials say this is an ongoing investigation and have not ruled out potential criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania liquor control enforcement agents say they&#8217;ve stopped an illegal gambling operation in Washington County. Officials say it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7159,73,75,74,437],"class_list":["post-196047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-gambling","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-washington-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196047","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=196047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}