From the NYTs:
SAN JACINTO, Calif. — With 9 reservations and 10 casinos, Riverside County is a major center of Indian gambling in California.
But a standoff between county sheriff’s deputies and leaders of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians has led to an unusual effort to close one of the casinos because of safety concerns.
Three Soboba members were killed in gunfights with deputies on the reservation in May, and the authorities say tribal members have shot at deputies in patrol cars and helicopters with high-powered assault rifles over the past nine months.
In July, citing what it called heavy-handed treatment by the Sheriff’s Department, the tribe began requiring deputies entering the reservation to check in at a security gate and travel with an escort. Sheriff Stanley Sniff says the restrictions are illegal and has asked the National Indian Gaming Commission to close the Soboba casino and suspend the tribe’s gambling license.
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