Mayor asks residents to help identify illegal Jacksonville adult game rooms

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – An I-Team probe recovered that astir 10 big crippled rooms are inactive operating underground successful Jacksonville contempt the information they were outlawed astir 2 years ago.

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On Wednesday, News4Jax asked Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry astir the crippled rooms and however the metropolis plans to code them. He really wants your assistance to place them.

“Clearly they’re not allowed nether the codification and we conscionable learned astir that. Our codification enforcement folks person been alerted to that. If radical archer america and they study it we volition nonstop it inspectors retired to instrumentality a look astatine it,” Curry said.

Councilman Garrett Dennis said helium has been approached by crippled country operators to present authorities to reopen the sites. He said helium would not beryllium opposed to it if determination were strict limitations and guidelines for them to run legally.

The crushed gaming rooms were unopen down earlier is due to the fact that the metropolis said they were a haven for transgression activity. There were reports of robberies and shootings, and determination was a deadly shooting of a information defender astatine 1 site. Plus, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said it was amerciable gambling.

Game country owners person contended that it was not gambling, it was conscionable sweepstakes and truthful legal. So far, that has not held up.