The war that erupted between then police chief Miguel Exposito and City of Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado ultimately ended up costing the chief and most of his command staff their jobs. And worse, the folks that were arrested for having these machines in their businesses ended up winning the criminal cases that were filed against them. So what about the machines? The word on the street was that the City of Miami PD had several million dollars worth of these machines locked up in their warehouses and according to what we were told, the owners of these machines were going to stop at nothing to get their machines back. With the chief out, it seemed like a slam dunk, in fact these documents from our friend Al Crepso's website seem to indicate that the machines did end up going back to the businesses where they were taken from...
There you have it, two court orders ordering the City of Miami PD to return Mr. Abdelhamid Machour's machines as well as the money that was contained inside them. End of story right? At least according to the coverage the local media was giving us, it was the end of the story, that is until you check the court docket for case #M09037660, it turns out that things didn't go quite the way the maquinita owners wanted to, from the docket...
From what the docket tells us, the order that we posted above were vacated and as recently as 6/2/11, the motions by the maquinita owners to get there machines back have been denied therefore all those gaming machines are still in the possession of the City of Miami PD. Strange isn't it? If these machines really were for amusement purposes only, why haven't the owners gotten them back yet? Something's haywire here, we'll have to go down to the courthouse today and see what we can find...
No comments:
Post a Comment