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Off the news: HPD shutters another illegal game room

There’s been another bust at a Honolulu “game room” where illegal gambling takes place, but this time the perpetrators were arrested for robbing the joint.

Honolulu police officers responded to a report of a gunpoint robbery in process at the Kawaiahao Street site last Thursday, encountering one of three armed men attempting to exit. Two others were found hiding in a bathroom, with two pistols and two ski masks in a trash can.

The men are being prosecuted on federal charges of robbery connected to interstate “commerce.” Police also seized digital gambling machines, but no gambling arrests were made.

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