Pa. gaming board issues fines, bans for gambling violations

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has announced fines and sanctions including penalties against two Harrisburg-area truck stops.

According to the PGCB, two truck stops with state-regulated video gaming terminals have agreed to fines after they were discovered to be operating the terminals without a state-certified employee present.

TA Operating was fined $37,500 for violations at the TA Travel Center on Linglestown Road. Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores was fined $32,500 for violations at its location on the Harrisburg Pike just outside Carlisle.

The board also announced it placed 17 more people on the state’s involuntary casino exclusion list for various offenses, including five individuals who left children unattended in vehicles while they went into a casino to gamble.

Those included one person who left a 14-year-old in his car for over seven hours, and another person who left an infant in a car for five minutes during 91-degree heat.

The board also said it placed four additional people on the involuntary exclusion list for online gaming for attempted fraud, including two individuals who created multiple accounts using other people’s identities, and two individuals who illegally requested credit card chargebacks.

The involuntary exclusion list for Pennsylvania’s 17 physical casino sites totals 1,247 people, according to the PGCB; the list for online gaming stands at 51.