
Only one person has been charged so far in connection with the raid that police conducted on the Juneteenth holiday last Thursday of what is suspected to be a gambling operation in Nu’uuli.
Amotai Floyd Makuisa, one of six men who were in the Abundance Arcade when police arrived, is charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance—methamphetamine.
Court documents say that at 8 a.m. on June 19, the Criminal Investigation Division, along with detectives from the Vice and Narcotics Unit of the Department of Public Safety, executed a search warrant on the Abundance Arcade for suspected illegal gambling.
When police arrived, several male individuals were playing on what appeared to be gambling machines inside the game room.
The defendant was one of them. According to the court filings, during a pat-down of Makuisa, police found a pill bottle containing a clear baggie which had inside a white crystalline substance; three cut-up straws containing an intact white crystalline substance; a glass pipe containing residue of a white crystalline substance; multiple used cut-up straws containing residue of a white crystalline substance; a fire torch; two small sized baggies containing what appeared to be a brownish powdery substance; a folded hand knife; and cash in the amount of $16.32.
Field tests conducted later that day confirmed that the white crystalline substances tested positive for methamphetamine. The brown powdery substance found in two small baggies had not been tested at the time of the court filings.
Makuisa had his initial appearance in District Court on Monday and his bail was reduced from $2,000 to $500.