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ME <br />REGULAR MEETING <br />MARCH 12, 1979 <br />12/2/77 - officers entered the establishment. 3 arrests made <br />for gambling and found guilty. <br />12/12/77 - 7 persons arrested for gambling, 6 convicted, 1 <br />dismissal. On the same date, a gun was confiscated. <br />12/23/77 - gun confiscated. <br />4/7/78 - two arrested and drugs confiscated, <br />5/27/78 - 6 persons arrested for gambling, 5 convictions, l dismissal <br />9/12/8 - officers observed gambling going on in the back room. <br />11/1/78 - gambling devices confiscated by Police Department. <br />11/8/78 - subject assaulted with gun inside establishment. <br />Captain Vinson said another time one person was shot and killed in <br />an attempted robbery and another person was critically wounded <br />inside the establishment. <br />Mr. Masters asked Captain Smith if this testimony was information <br />which came to his attention as Commanding Officer of the Vice Squad <br />and Captain Smith answered yes. Mr, Masters asked Captain Smith if <br />he held-this-'position in 1977 and 1978 and':Captain Smith answered yes. <br />Mr. Masters asked Captain Smity if other vice officers were aware <br />of this activity. Mr. McLaughlin objected to the question and it was <br />withdrawn. Mr. Masters asked Captain Smith what kind of activities <br />he had seen on the premises. Captain Smith said he had seen gambling, <br />devices, tables, dice and cards. Mr. Masters asked Captain Smith <br />if he had observed Mr. Brinson engaged in these activities and <br />Captain Smith said no. Mr. Masters asked Captain Smith how many <br />times he was on the premises and observed these activities. Captain <br />Smith said fifty to seventy -five times in the past year and one half. <br />Mr. McLaughlin asked Captain Smith how much of the testimony related <br />to what he saw personally as opposed to what he gleaned from reports <br />made by someone else. Captain Smith replied four or five incidents. <br />Mr. Masters called Corporal Kenneth Horvath and asked him to state <br />his position on.the South Bend Police Department.. Corporal Horvath <br />said he was a Corporal on the Vice Squad and had been for two years. <br />Mr. Masters asked Corporal Horvath if, in the course of his employ -. <br />ment,'he personally visited the premises at 1240 W. Washington, <br />known as Little Johnnie's Cigar Store. Corporal Horvath answered yes. <br />Mr. Masters asked Corporal Horvath to state for the record activities <br />he had observed on the premises. Corporal Horvath said he saw <br />subjects gambling and guns confiscated. On one occasion, Corporal <br />Horvath said he peered through a back door and saw a gambling <br />game in progress and took pictures. Several arrests were made. <br />Mr. Masters asked Corporal Horvath how many times he had been on <br />the subject premises. Corporal Horvath said over one hundred times <br />over,a two -year period. Mr. Masters then submitted photographs <br />marked as Exhibits, 6, 7, 9 and 10 and asked Corporal Horvath to <br />comment. Corporal Horvath said the photographs were taken at the <br />pool hall. He noted that he observed from 10 to 20 people around <br />a dice table made out of a pool table. They were shooting dice <br />and there was some type of card table off to one side where <br />subjects were playing cards and cambling.. United States currency <br />was observed. Mr. Masters displayed a photograph taken 1/1/78 <br />and asked Corporal Horvath if he was present at that time. Corporal <br />