Last month, Maryland Live agreed to pay $20,000 and take measures to prevent underage people from entering under a consent agreement with the state’s Lottery and Gaming Control Commission.
Maryland Live, the largest of the state’s four casinos, has seen the most crime - reporting to gambling regulators that police have responded to the facility more than 110 times this year - about half the number of incidents reported at all of them. “Safety and security is culturally part of everything we do” said Robert Norton, the casino’s general manager. And local police officers patrol the area around the casino, keeping in radio contact with casino security. Off-duty police boost security, especially on the busiest days when more than 40,000 people pass through the casino’s doors. Two hundred security officers keep watch over gamblers and escort big winners to their cars.
Baltimore Sun eNewspaper Home Page Close MenuĪround the clock, teams watch surveillance footage from more than 1,000 cameras covering nearly every inch of the 2 million-square-foot Maryland Live casino, which includes restaurants, a music venue and a 5,000-space parking garage.
