In addition to the money at Neal’s home, Cummings said about $2 million had been discovered in his bank accounts as of early Monday morning.

According to Cummings, Neal was arrested in 1994 on illegal gambling charges but was acquitted in 1995. Neal was also the target in a federal investigation into his illegal gambling operations in the late 1990s. He pleaded guilty to four counts of money laundering and spent 3 1/2 years in a Terre Haute federal prison.

The three-year probation from his federal charges forbade him to have alcoholic beverage permits or be involved in related businesses, according to the Alcohol and Tobacco Commission’s news release.

Following his release from federal prison, excise officers and Anderson police detectives began to receive complaints that Neal was rebuilding his criminal enterprise.

Sandefur and Monty D. McMahan, an excise police detective, allege that Neal’s daughter, Vicky Massey, continued his underground enterprises during his incarceration. Her Yorktown home was also searched in Monday’s raids.

Detectives searched Mickey’s Tax Service in Muncie, as well. Investigators allege that Mickey Brock is known to do taxes for Neal and many of the businesses with which he is associated.

Video Services and Muncie Coin are the two Muncie businesses investigators call the “hub” of Neal’s illegal video gambling operation that involve many Madison County bars.

Do-Len-Ski’s Supper Club in Chesterfield, Pelletrino’s in Anderson and The Curve in Alexandria are just a few of the establishments in question.

Neal now faces felony charges of professional gambling, promoting professional gambling, money laundering and corrupt business influence. Neal was held on $1 million full cash bond.

Formal charges will likely be filed by the prosecutor’s office against Neal and the others involved later this week, but the high volume of arrests could delay proceedings.

In addition to the criminal charges filed against Neal, the state has filed a civil suit, restraining order and seizure orders for bank accounts and assets at a bank in Indianapolis, one in Evansville, two in Muncie and one in Winchester.

Attorney J. Gregory Garrison, known for his involvement as lead prosecutor in the Mike Tyson rape trial in the early 1990s, has been called in to deal with the civil case.

John Neal-owned businesses raided and closed Monday

Muncie Coin, 1521 W. Walnut St., Muncie