Macon police are looking for the people who bought five video poker machines at the Georgia State Fair this week.
Police are trying to round up the machines, which are illegal to own, after seizing 56 machines that were being sold at a booth inside the fair-grounds Tuesday night.
"It would be a good idea for them to turn (the machines) over," Macon Police Sgt. Robert Carr said Wednesday.
"It's illegal to even be transporting them around in your car."
Police are following leads from receipts found at the booth Tuesday night. The reconditioned machines, believed once to have been used on gambling boats, were sold for $295 to $500 each.
As of July 1, it is illegal in Georgia to own or operate any part of video poker machines.
Fair officials said the vendor said he was selling the machines for "amusement purposes only."
"If the devices are determined to be illegal, then their presence at the fair was not only a violation of the law but
also a violation of the vendor agreement that the seller of the devices had entered into with the fair,"
Edgar W. Ennis, Jr., president of the Exchange Club of Macon, which sponsors the fair each year, said in a statement.
