SINKING SPRING, Pa. \u2013 Tuesday night, skill-game machines were still running at Liberty Fire Co. #1 in Sinking Spring. For the club, they bring in important money.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it\u2019s money, and honestly, you know, with a place that specializes in customer service as well as small games of chance, this is a huge take for our club in general,\u201d said Justin Mancias of Liberty Fire Co. #1 Social Quarters.<\/p>\n
Attorney General Dave Sunday issued a statewide warning Tuesday: Remove the machines by Oct. 14, or risk having them and the money inside seized.<\/p>\n
In Berks County, District Attorney John Adams is sending the same message directly to businesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou must remove the games, the skill machines, from your premises effective October 14th, 2026,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n
The district attorney sent a letter to every police chief in the county. He says local and state police will enforce the deadline.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t want to arrest the owners of businesses that have these machines, but we will if they don\u2019t voluntarily relinquish the machines and remove them from their premises,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n
At Liberty, Mancias says the club will follow the law, even as he hopes lawmakers find another solution.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they need to be out of here by October 14th, they\u2019re going to be out of here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINKING SPRING, Pa. \u2013 Tuesday night, skill-game machines were still running at Liberty Fire Co. #1 in Sinking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3649,349,122638,122639,128,130,129,24385],"class_list":["post-296636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-attorney-general-dave-sunday","tag-berks-county","tag-business-compliance","tag-district-attorney-john-adams","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-skill-game-machines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296636","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=296636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}