SHELBY, N.C. - Sheriff's deputies uncovered 75 video poker machines from a Cleveland County warehouse Monday, culminating a weekend investigation.

A county narcotics officer spotted individuals unloading the machines into the warehouse. That was after police received information that individuals were bringing video poker machines into Cleveland County from South Carolina.

The seizure of the video poker machines, which were being stored in the warehouse, was the most ever of inactive machines in the county, Cleveland County Sheriff's Office Capt. Bobby Steen said.

No arrests have been made, he said.

According to Steen, officers first learned of the video poker machines Saturday. A narcotics officer followed the suspects after they unloaded the machines. That took the officer to a Gaffney, S.C., truck stop, where the suspects placed more video machines in a truck. The machines were then brought to Cleveland County and unloaded in the warehouse, Steen said.

Police think the suspects were attempting to operate the machines in other locations, possibly inside North Carolina, Steen said.

Video poker machines are illegal in South Carolina. While the machines are legal in North Carolina, it is illegal to warehouse any video poker machine, unless it is the legal manufacturing of the machine.