{"id":9460,"date":"2024-08-30T10:13:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T10:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/brazil-police-clamp-down-on-claw-machines\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T10:13:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T10:13:59","slug":"brazil-police-clamp-down-on-claw-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/brazil-police-clamp-down-on-claw-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil police clamp down on claw machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Rio de Janeiro police targeted several claw machines across the city on Wednesday, saying they are games of chance &#8211; like slot machines &#8211; and therefore illegal.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Officers confiscated machines, laptops, tablets, cell phones, a firearm and even stuffed animals. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">They are investigating whether organised crime groups are involved in running these machines. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In an earlier raid in May, police seized some 80 machines, which they later found were only allowing customers to win after a fixed number of attempts.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cgky23m80v5o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rio de Janeiro police targeted several claw machines across the city on Wednesday, saying they are games of chance &#8211; like slot machines &#8211; and therefore illegal. Officers confiscated machines, laptops, tablets, cell phones, a firearm and even stuffed animals. They are investigating whether organised crime groups are involved in running these machines. In an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9462,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460\/revisions\/9462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}