First Slot Machine Arrest

The first arrest at the Gulfstream Park Racing and Casino was finally made – and it was for solicitation in the slot machine room. Sheena Marie Kline, 21, of Linden, VA, was charged with a misdemeanor count of offering to secure a lewd act and another charge of a felony for possession of a prescription painkiller. Many thought that the slot machine casino would bring crime with it; they just thought it would come sooner than this.

Kline allegedly approached an undercover Florida Law Department Enforcement agent in the slot machine room’s bar area. She then offered to have “straight sex” with him for $250. She allegedly told him they could go to her Hallandale Beach apartment. When authorities arrested her they searched her purse and found prescription painkillers that were supposedly for her knee.

Opponents of the slot machines have been touting that they were going to bring in crime and other social ills with them, but police say up until this incident it has been rather quiet. Gulfstream Park operates 516 slot machines at this time, and is planning on operating 1,500 slot machines in all – the maximum allowed under Florida law. Broward County voters approved the Class III slot machines in 2005, and Gulfstream was the first to open.
 

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