Bee County Sheriff Carlos Carrizales Jr. led the raids along with his deputies and Texas Department of Public Safety investigators in mid-August.
The four included Joe Henry Lopez, 64, Joy Louise Greenwood, 48, Louis Anthony “Tony” Rivera, 51, and Roxann Crenshaw Miguez.
Miguez was not arrested as a result of the raid but was later identified as the manager of one of the game rooms for which deputies had a warrant.
All were indicted on the state jail felony charge of engaging in organized criminal activity between June 26 and Aug. 15, 2008.
The indictments alleged that each of the defendants and two or more others committed the misdemeanor offense of gambling promotion and operating or participating in the earnings of a gambling place.
Other misdemeanor charges listed in the indictments included: keeping a gambling place, a place used for making or settling bets, the conducting of a lottery or playing of gambling devices; possession of a gambling device, that being a device designed for gambling purposes; and possession of gambling paraphernalia.
All charges other than the one of engaging in organized criminal activity are Class A misdemeanors.
If convicted on the state jail felony charges, the defendants could be sentenced to as much as two years in a state jail facility and fined as much as $10,000.
Convictions on the Class A misdemeanor charges could get the defendants up to a year in the county jail and a fine of as much as $4,000.
Lopez was accused of operating a gambling place, the Lucky Tri, at 1308 S. St. Mary’s St.
Miguez was accused of operating Touch of Vegas, a game room at 2446 E. U.S. Highway 59.
Greenwood and Rivera were charged with operating a game room at 1603 N. St. Mary’s St. called the Lucky Bucks.
District Judge M.E. “Mike” Welborn set bonds on each of the defendants at $10,000.
The cases against the suspects have been under investigation since deputies raided four game rooms on Aug. 15 of last year.
Teams of deputies from the BCSO, Special Weapons and Tactics deputies from the San Patricio County Sheriff’s Office, DPS Criminal Intelligence and DPS Narcotics and members of the Corpus Christi Police Department all participated in the raids, hitting all four game rooms at the same time.
Thirteen people were charged with various offenses on the night of the raid but not all of them were indicted last week.
When the game rooms were raided last August, it was the second time since September 2003 that so-called eight-liner operations had been shut down in Beeville.
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