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Thieves target scratch-off lottery tickets in 'snatch-and-grab'News Story
Includes video report Throughout the Baltimore region police are looking for a man and a woman who have teamed up to steal hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth in Maryland Lottery tickets from area convenience stores. It happened again recently at a 7-Eleven on Ritchie Highway in Brooklyn. The male theft suspect opens the door for his female accomplice and a customer before going into action action captured by the store's multiple security cameras. Our own system has 16 cameras i
Jun 24, 2016, 9:30 am - Todd - Lottery News

Police official tried to cash in stolen lottery ticketNews Story
The chairman of a Connecticut police commission has resigned after being charged in Florida with trying to cash in a winning $520,000 lottery ticket that was reported stolen by his niece. Michael Royston, 49, was freed on bond after his arrest last Thursday at Florida Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee, and on Friday night, he sent a terse resignation email to Windsor Locks Town Clerk William Hamel, saying only: Effective immediately I am resigning my position as police commissioner. On
Aug 10, 2015, 7:38 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Powerball Matrix Change - April 15, 2015Reply
One has to wonder why this thread is still active! Face it, lotteries are in business to make as much money as possible without fear of being arrested for felony theft. Motivated by greed, MUSL called a meeting and asked members to come up with a plan to increase profits, knowing of course that the only way to do it was to make the game harder to win. The only way to do that is to add more numbers to the existing matrix, thus, 5/69. However, the plan also included provisions to ma
Jun 30, 2015, 2:06 pm - bobby623 - Lottery Discussion Forum

California gas station manager allegedly kept winning lottery scratchersNews Story
The former manager of a San Bruno gas station has been charged with cheating people who purchased California lottery scratchers after he figured out a way to secretly check which tickets were winners. He would then sell the losing tickets to gas station patrons. Most people who bought the scratcher tickets probably never noticed something was odd, but one customer did notice her ticket had been tampered with. At the bottom of the ticket there were markings as though someone had scratche
Jan 13, 2015, 8:45 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Florida Lottery winner outed as sexual predatorNews Story
At the Florida Lottery headquarters, Timothy Poole, 43, posed for a photo with an oversized check after claiming his $3 million Scratch-Off prize. But when the image hit the Internet, others recognized the 450-pound man as a registered sexual predator. In 2001, The Orange County Sheriff's Office arrested Poole on charges of sexual battery on a 9-year-old boy, records show. Before that, he was arrested in 1991 for stealing almost $20,000 in food stamps from Safeco Inc. of Ocala, where he worke
Dec 10, 2014, 5:24 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Judge rules boss must give waiter half of $1.7M lottery jackpot for predicting winNews Story
A restaurant boss in England was ordered yesterday to split a disputed 1 million (US$1.7 million) lottery payout with one of his waiters who claimed he dreamed they would win a fortune together. Judge Mark Gosnell told Hayati Kucukkoylu he must hand 500,000 of the EuroMillions prize to Fatih Ozcan. The High Court heard Ozcan was so convinced they would win he pestered Kucukkoylu into buying tickets with him, sharing the stake and jointly choosing the lottery numbers. But when the waiter
Jul 15, 2014, 9:29 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Texas Woman Scammed by 'Friend' in 'Facebook Lottery'News Story
Includes video report A woman in Texas says she was the victim of a well-worn scam, but what was unique in her case was that the fraudulent pitch came to her through a Facebook friend and was allegedly endorsed by President Obama. Kris White admits that she shouldn't have been fooled last week by the Facebook message saying she had won $250,000 in a Facebook Powerball lottery, ABC News affiliate KTRK reported. She said she was shown documents that wrote United States with lowercase letters
May 23, 2014, 2:05 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Indiana Couple Implicated in Joliet Casino KENO Cheating Ring & Vegas Fugitives
Indiana Couple Implicated in Joliet Casino Cheating Ring Jailed Two of the five alleged casino cheats who took the Joliet Harrah's for as much as $500,000 were arrested. Flag as inappropriateAn Indiana couple charged with ripping off the Joliet Harrah's for as much as $500,000 was jailed while their three alleged accomplices from Las Vegas remains at large. Rande Thorpe, 57, of La Porte, IN, and his wife, Virgninia Thorpe, 58, of Corpus Christi, TX, were booked into the Will County jail
Apr 5, 2014, 6:20 pm - eddessaknight - Gaming Forum

$257 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot expandsReply
I can't believe you're still arguing this issue of clerks playing Scratch games? And as far as clerks ripping people off, it's not just a few, the problem is rampant. You should check out the whole Dateline NBC Chris Hansen Lotto Clerk Thief investigative series. Here's few links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSvIvJzLTho http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Dk1QJtc6E Whether it's theft of tickets, underpaying, discounting, etc. It's like a constant battle for the security team. As the
Dec 3, 2013, 3:55 pm - Jon D - Lottery News

Stolen lottery ticket leads to six felony charges and a winner empty-handedNews Story
Two men and one woman from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, are being charged with theft after police said they got caught stealing and claiming a winning $10,000 lottery ticket. The rightful winner, a 65-year-old Eau Claire man, said he is putting retirement on hold after police said his ticket was stolen by a grocery store employee who was supposed to mail it in. After buying a winning lottery ticket at Gordy's County Market on Clairemont Avenue and soon turning it in at Mega West, the man, who di
Oct 14, 2013, 10:50 am - Todd - Lottery News