Former Flint police chief sentenced to 1 day in jail in illegal gaming case

FLINT, MI – A former Flint police chief was sentenced Friday to one day in the county jail in connection with an illegal gaming case against him.

Brad Barksdale, who stepped down as Flint’s police chief in 2004, was sentenced Friday, April 14, by Genesee County Circuit Judge David J. Newblatt to one day of jail, with credit for one day already served.

The sentence – handed down following Barksdale’s February no-contest plea to single counts of attempted gambling activities and reckless use of a firearm – also includes financial fines and costs.

Barksdale operated West Point Arcade in Flint and was charged in October 2018 along with two others after Michigan Gaming Control Board Regulation Officers discovered alleged gambling activities without a casino license, according to the attorney general’s office.

The two other defendants indicted in the case, Alvin Crossnoe and his son, Adam Crossnoe, have both been adjudicated through the Genesee County criminal court system.

Barksdale was originally charged with single counts of gambling activities, using a computer to commit a crime and possession of a short-barreled shotgun.

However, at his plea hearing, those three charges were dismissed and replaced with the amended attempted gambling activities charge and the reckless use of a firearm charge.

Investigators previously testified that they visited the establishment that was allegedly operating as a video gambling parlor more than 10 times between April 2017 and December 2017.

Testimony was offered that during those months officers worked surveillance on the employees and ownership as well as the officer playing some of the slot-type games on computer terminals.