The owner of a Riverdale bingo parlor said the city's police chief has tried to bully him into quietly closing his business by threatening to raid his club and throw employees in jail.

Now the owner is fighting back with a federal lawsuit against the city, claiming his right to due process were violated when city officials, including Riverdale Police Chief David Hansen, pulled the business license for Riverdale Dinner and Bingo without giving the owner a chance to have a hearing before the Riverdale City Council, as required by city ordinance.

The owner of a Riverdale bingo parlor said the city's police chief has tried to bully him into quietly closing his business by threatening to raid his club and throw employees in jail.

Now the owner is fighting back with a federal lawsuit against the city, claiming his right to due process were violated when city officials, including Riverdale Police Chief David Hansen, pulled the business license for Riverdale Dinner and Bingo without giving the owner a chance to have a hearing before the Riverdale City Council, as required by city ordinance.

The police have spent some time checking the bingo rooms, last week they went over 18 rooms and seized almost 5,000 illegal slot machines in Rio de Janeiro. There had to be used 40 trucks in order to be able to take the machines, which are thought to have illegally imported parts inside and therefore they can’t be used in the country.

The police went to the 18 bingo rooms on Saturday and seized 5,000 illegal machines in Rio de Janeiro, according to the information given by the authorities.

Yaowaluck Nakkong, a 53-year-old restaurant chef who works at the Sangdao Thai restaurant, won the National Bingo Game top prize at the Winners Club. She took home a £200,000 bingo jackpot.

“I don't think she fully understood at first how much she had won as her English is not that good,” John Markerson, Club Manager, said. “Everyone cheered. It was phenomenal stuff. Although this was by far our biggest win on the National Game, we have been very lucky with quite a few zone prizes recently.”

On Monday, legal representatives for VFW Charity Bingo in Triana asked the Court Judge Bruce Williams not to close the business.

Managers of the Wall-Triana Highway bingo hall voluntarily closed its doors on Thursday after the Sheriff complaint about the hall’s legality.

Attorneys for the bingo hall argue that charity bingo is legal under both state and town ordinances. They will keep the bingo hall closed until the judge puts an end to the confrontations.

Valerie Hargrave, a bingo player of Moss Bay, won the National Bingo game at the Opera Bingo. The lucky winner took home £201,000, as confirmed by Graves Cumberland, the company that operates Opera Bingo.

The Workington club is considered one of the luckiest ones in Britain since several of its customers have won big cash prizes. In fact, over the last eight years, the company’s three clubs in Whitehaven, Workington and Penrith have paid out more than £2.3million to national bingo game winners.

A 54-year-old woman from Lower Sunbury is the lucky winner of a £202,000 bingo jackpot, thanks to her daughter and granddaughter who insisted that she should go to the Gala Bingo in Feltham. This was the 16th visit of the lady to the bingo hall.

The lady, who asked not to be named, won the National Bingo Game prize of £200,000, the regional prize of £1,773 and the club prize of £275. She completed a full house in 38 numbers, which was the lowest call in 500 clubs in the whole country.

The Kentucky Charitable Gaming Association and a group of bingo halls in Louisville claim that the city’s new smoking ban violates the state and federal constitutions. For that reason, they filed a lawsuit this week in Jefferson Circuit Court. This suit is similar to another one filed on November 14th by Louisville bars that claims that the exemption that allows smoking at Churchill Downs violates the constitution.

Bingo halls state that the exemption infringes equal protection and due process clauses of the constitution and that the ban denies owners their property without any compensation. Bingo hall owners believe the law hits them especially hard because it requires charitable groups that use the halls to maintain a 40% profit margin.

Although Dane County voters rejected a referendum to allow the expansion of Dejope Bingo in 2004, the operation has continued its development. The venue will reopen next month after being updated and renovated.

The remodeling started last July, paper-card bingo games and callers were replaced with new computerized bingo machines. Tracy Littlejohn, a public relations officer for the Ho-Chunk Nation, said the change would be beneficial.

Brett Hyrjak is the new Bingo Caller of the Year. The final event of the competition took place on Monday at South East London’s Gala Bingo Club. Hyrjak faced other five regional winners in front of a panel of judges, which were renowned members of the bingo industry.

Hyrjak, who is 30 years old, works at the Bognor Regis’ Gala Bingo Club and had to answer a series of questions about the industry. Afterwards, he performed an entertainment act and called some numbers.