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Pennsylvania Police Form Gambling Unit

PITTSBURGH -- As reported by the Associated Press: "State police are forming a gambling unit to investigate crimes at slot machine parlors.

"The Office of Gaming Enforcement will operate under a two-year budget of $7.5 million and will handle crimes including theft, assault, cheating, identity theft and money laundering.

"Capt. Ronald Petyak of the state police Bureau of Criminal Investigations in Harrisburg will head the new unit and is overseeing background checks on the state's regulatory board.

"Armed troopers in plain clothes will roam casino floors to augment private security and 'minimize the impact from activities inside the facility on the local police jurisdictions,' Petyak told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for Sunday's paper..."

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