Card clubs in Emeryville and San Bruno were raided early Wednesday as part of a multiagency investigation into organized crime, authorities said.
Federal, state and local law-enforcement agents converged on the Oaks Card Club at 4097 San Pablo Ave. at about 6 a.m., officials said.
No one at the business was available for comment. The establishment opened a year before Emeryville's incorporation in 1896.
At about the same time, agents were descending on Artichoke Joe's at 659 Huntington Ave. in San Bruno. Managers of the card club were not available to comment.
The investigation includes the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the state Justice Department's Bureau of Gambling Control, said FBI spokeswoman Julianne Sohn.
Authorities served an undisclosed number of search and arrest warrants throughout the Bay Area, said Sohn, who declined to elaborate because details of the investigation are still under seal.
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