Three people were charged with gambling offenses after State Police raided a convenience store in Ohioville, Pennsyvlania, USA, and found 13 illegal video poker machines.

According to media reports, three undercover members of the Pennsylvania State Police’s vice unit went to Haynes Super Service on January 2, where the store’s owner, Darrel Haynes, told them there were video poker machines in a back room.

The undercover trooopers played the machines, and then came back six days later and played them again, the reports said.

On the second undercover visit, one trooper won $20, and received his winnings from a store employee, Susan Garner, the reports said.

Armed with a search warrant, the undercover troopers went back to the convenience store on January 11 and confiscated 13 video poker machines, the reports said.

Haynes told the State Police that another man, Thomas Martin, supplied the video poker machines to the store, and that Martin paid Haynes $650 a month for the right to do so, the reports said. =A0 Haynes, 34, of Rochester, Pennsylvania; Martin, 51, of Mars, Pennsylvania; and Garner, 63, of East Liverpool, Ohio; were later arrested and each was charged with possession of illegal gambling devices, the reports said.

In addition, Haynes was charged with marijuana possession, because cops found pot under a counter at his store, the reports said.

(E-mail Tom Somach at tomsomach@yahoo.com.)