{"id":207695,"date":"2026-06-01T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207695\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:38:09","slug":"woman-who-banned-herself-from-pennsylvania-casinos-for-life-gets-escorted-out-after-winning-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207695\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who banned herself from Pennsylvania casinos for life gets escorted out after winning jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who was banned from Pennsylvania casinos for life was escorted out by police after she hit the jackpot in Dauphin County.<\/p>\n<p>According to a public information release from the Pennsylvania State Police, troopers were contacted shortly after 3:30 p.m. on Sunday about a woman who was at the Hollywood Casino at Penn National in East Hanover Township.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the woman had been identified as someone who was self-excluded from casinos after she won a slot machine jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>After reviewing information, troopers said they confirmed that the 69-year-old woman from Asbury, New Jersey, had given herself a self-imposed lifetime ban from casinos in 2019. Police escorted her off the property and told her a non-traffic citation for trespassing would be filed against her.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers didn&#8217;t say whether she got to keep the jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>In Pennsylvania, people who are struggling with a gambling addiction can voluntarily ban themselves from casinos. According to the Council of Compulsive Gambling of Pennsylvania, people can put themselves on a self-exclusion list for one year, five years or a lifetime. The self-exclusions don&#8217;t expire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After someone puts themself on an exclusion list for casinos, the council said licensed facilities must refuse their wagers and deny them gaming privileges. The council also said self-excluded gamblers are prohibited from collecting any winnings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who was banned from Pennsylvania casinos for life was escorted out by police after she hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7159,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-207695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-gambling","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207695","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=207695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}