Officers served a search warrant at the home on El Cajon Boulevard Thursday and seized 23 gambling machines, drugs and more than $4,700 in cash
San Diego police raided an illicit gambling parlor operating out of a home in Kensington Thursday night, authorities said.
Police began investigating the residence, above a business on El Cajon Boulevard near 43rd Street, after being tipped to potential illegal activity, police said.
On Thursday, officers served a search warrant at the home and seized 23 gambling machines, drugs and more than $4,700 in cash, Lt. Jason Scott said.
Nine people were inside gambling at the time. Police issued two misdemeanor citations — one for drug possession and another for visiting a prohibited gambling den.
Police have been cracking down on a proliferation of illicit gambling parlors in recent years, including an investigation led by the FBI’s Violent Crimes Task Force-Gang Group that ended in 47 people charged in a series of federal indictments in 2021.