Casino operator MGM Resorts has been fined $100k for allowing minors to access the gaming floor and quaff forbidden beverages at its Massachusetts property.

On Thursday, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) announced that it had imposed a $100k ‘civil administrative penalty’ on the MGM Springfield casino for multiple instances in which individuals under 21 years of age were able to gain access to the casino’s gaming floor and consume alcohol.

According to the MGC’s Investigations and Enforcement Bureau (IEB), the underage infractions started last August and totaled 22 incidents over the next three months. A further eight incidents occurred in a 10-day span starting in late November, followed by 14 more incidents between last December and late April.

The incidents kept reoccurring despite the MGC ordering MGM to block under-21’s access to the crosswalk across the gaming area, limiting them to the perimeter of the slots and table games zone, but apparently this ‘look but don’t touch’ approach only seemed to whet the young-uns’ appetite for forbidden fruit.