Overview
- Civil suits target five Dunklin County retailers—Discount Spirits and Tobacco, Dixie Package, Kennett Liquor and Tobacco, Laura’s Mini Mart, and Swindle’s Quick Shop.
- Filings allege the stores hosted video lottery terminals and “fishing table” games that pay out cash via tickets redeemed on site.
- The Attorney General seeks civil penalties and a permanent injunction to bar the locations from offering illegal gambling.
- Dunklin County Prosecuting Attorney Nicholas Jain announced felony charges after the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control probe.
- Hanaway has said her office is assisting a federal investigation into illegal slot machines that touches on money‑laundering and banking issues as lawmakers debate whether to license and tax VLTs.