WARREN FBI, police raid dice game, find records dating to 1983

No one has been charged with a crime.
WARREN -- A 20-year-old dice game was broken up by a pre-dawn raid by police and FBI, officials say.
Officers confiscated about $6,000 in cash, dice, betting chips and gambling records going back to 1983 when they searched an apartment above the Greyhound bus station on East Market Street.
A sawed-off shotgun was also found in the raid.
When police and FBI arrived with a search warrant at 4 a.m. Saturday, they found 14 people gathered around a Vegas-style dice table, said Detective Jeff Houlihan, who helped conduct a three-month investigation.
The game's supervisor and the dealer were also interviewed and released, he said.
No one has been charged in the raid, conducted under a search warrant from the Trumbull Court of Common Pleas.
The apartment was rented to Bill Graham, who was present when the game was broken up.
Players gambled about $40 or $50 a round in the regular weekend games of barbut, which started after 1 a.m., Houlihan said.
"It was a midlevel-stakes game," he said.
The sawed-off shotgun was found in a plastic bag, unloaded, under the mattress in the apartment's bedroom.
The fire department and health department have been alerted to possible code violations at the structure, which Houlihan said had a rundown roof and floor.