Hawaiian policemen swooped down different illegal card rooms and underground slot parlors in the island paradise and rounded-up 35 people involved in illegal gambling.

KITV4 reported that law enforcement agencies have stepped up the implementation of gambling laws in the American holiday paradise. Hawaii remains to be one of the two remaining states in the US to ban gambling.

At least 35 people were arrested as police crackdown in illegal gambling dens in Oahu. Police said the raid was just an opening salvo.

“Game rooms affect people of all ages and social economic levels. We sometimes hear people say that gambling is harmless form of entertainment, however we know that game rooms are often the hubs of illegal activity such as drug dealing, robberies, assaults and homicides have been associated with game rooms,” Major Larry Lawson in Honolulu Police District’s (HPD) criminal investigation division., according to the news report.