PADUCAH, KY (KFVS) - Paducah police say they broke up a gambling operation Tuesday afternoon and arrested two men accused of running the illegal setup.

Dewey D. Griffin, 63, from Calvert City was charged with first-degree promoting gambling and possession of marijuana.

Jimmy C. Jackson, 70, from Kevil was charged with first-degree promoting gambling.

Robert W. Cruse, 71, from Paducah was charged with second-degree promoting gambling.

According to police, Griffin and Jackson are accused of profiting from the gambling operation, which was located in a storefront in a small strip mall at 2517 Bridge Street.

Detective Sergeant Brian Laird said the gambling house apparently had been operating in the location, which appeared to be a vacant store, since late spring. Laird said detectives began receiving tips about illegal activities there and began investigating in mid-summer.

MCCRACKEN COUNTY, KY (KFVS) - An Illinois woman faces charges after sheriff's deputies say she tried to pass a fake prescription at a McCracken County pharmacy on Monday.

Tina Rice, 52, of Brookport, Ill. is charged with attempt/obtain substance by fraud.

A pharmacy called the McCracken County Sheriff's Department after receiving a suspicious prescription for Tina Rice. A pharmacy employee called the physician's office to verify the precription and learned it was fake.

Detectives found Tina Rice at the pharmacy.

She had 120 doses of 10mg Norco pills that she had just received from the pharmacy, according to the sheriff's department.

Deputies seized the pills.

Detectives say Rice told them that she had fraudulently passed a prescription to the pharmacy.

She was arrested at the pharmacy and taken to the McCracken County Jail.

Rice is also on probation in Illinois for the same type of offense.

MCCRACKEN COUNTY, KY (KFVS) - The McCracken County Sheriff's Department is searching for an unknown individual that allegedly deposited a stolen $125 check into a Reidland bank account while posing as someone else.

According to the sheriff's department, on Nov. 11, Lori Pearson from Murphysboro, Tenn. reported that on Oct. 11 an unknown individual deposited a $125 personal check into her US Bank checking account. Pearson told officers the check was written to her and deposited at the US Bank in Reidland. The sheriff's department says it was determined the check, which was deposited into Pearson's account, had been stolen from an individual in Evergreen, Colo.

Officers say a further investigation revealed that the day before, on Oct. 10, a personal check in the amount of $325, which had been stolen from an individual in Memphis, Tenn., had been written to Pearson's name and cashed at the Draffenville, Ky. US Bank.