At least she won't have to bail him out again anytime soon
By Todd Northrop
BOLIVIA, N.C. — The boyfriend of North Carolina's biggest Powerball winner will spend time in prison and pay a hefty fine as part of a plea agreement in a drug case.
Lamarr McDow, the 32-year-old boyfriend of $188 million Powerball winner Marie Holmes, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to traffic heroin in a Brunswick County, North Carolina, court Wednesday.
McDow, who also goes by the name "Hot Sauce", was sentenced as part of a plea agreement to a minimum of 7.5 years in prison, and must pay a $100,000 fine. He faces a maximum of 10 years.
McDow is the boyfriend of Marie Holmes, who won $188 million in a February 2015 Powerball drawing. Hot Sauce was arrested in November 2014 on charges including heroin trafficking and conspiracy.
Prosecutors allege McDow took a trip to New Jersey for the purpose of trafficking drugs. Law enforcement officials said they recovered thousands of bags of heroin during investigations alleged to involve McDow.
Since Holmes' win, McDow has been released from jail four times after being held on multimillion-dollar bonds. The first happened in March 2015, when a $3 million bond was met on the original heroin charges.
McDow was arrested again during a July raid at the couple's home on a charge of violating conditions of his pretrial release. He was released in August when a $6 million bond was met. Holmes was cited for drug possession in the raid, which investigators said also uncovered drugs and weapons at the home.
In December, McDow was jailed under a $12 million bond following his arrest on charges of conspiring to arrange a street race and again violating his pretrial release. He was released after the bond was met in early January. (See N.C. lottery winner bails out convict fiancé fourth time, Lottery Post, Jan. 4, 2016.)
Judge Richard brown heard McDow's plea Wednesday.
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This is one of those BLM drug dealers. This is her chance to move away and change her name, never contact this slime ball again.
Imbecile has an imbecile girlfriend with $100 million who I assume gives him anything he wants but imbecile still goes out and sells drugs. WTF? I would say the best thing for her would be for them to lock him up for as long as possible but she's an imbecile and will just go find another guy like him who may be even worse. Sigh. Of all the people to win the lottery and a massive jackpot like that, it had to be someone like her.
When I say poor, I don't mean wealth wise. She still has plenty for others to try to bleed out of her...
Marie Holmes thinks she knows what she is doing. Will she spend a small amount on legal, financial, and mental health care advice? For her family. She needs the right kind of help. She can afford it today before she blows through her prize.
Her win should last until she passes on and then continue for her children's lives.
A winner's family, friends, and herself will be her downfall if she is not careful.
She'll pay the $100K fine no doubt. He'll get paroled in no time, not 7.5 years as I don't believe this is a Federal prison. Since it involved another state he could face Federal charges as well, though the way things are nowadays I seriously doubt it.
She's counting down the days until this bottom feeder is released. Can't win (or haven't so far) the big lottery, but I can guarantee she'll take him back. Her self-esteem is in the gutter.
Sadly this is going to turn into another story for "Lottery winners who lost it all"
Maybe she can now get some peace and move far far away while he in jail.
Man, you don't know how mad this whole situation makes me.
He could have had anything he wanted.
With a woman with kids, and a hundred million dollars.
Now, the big dudes in jail are going to be making fun of him,
for giving up what he had.
He may have wished he asked the Judge for lethal injection.
He's sick, as is his woman. The kids are not faring any better.
What are the kids going to reflect on? That their Mom's boyfriend is a drug dealer and jail magnet?
When will she wake up?
Hope she gets the bond money back she already posted
most curious story indeed
They grew up in a life style which is next to impossible to escape even with the money from a Jackpot!
She won $188 million, if she wanted to move away from him and not be with him, she would have done so the day she won the lottery. It's pretty clear she wants to be with this loser until the bitter end. The millions she's spent on bailing this criminal out shows that clearly enough.
Didn't this girl have any parents to teach her what's right and wrong?
I mean how difficult is it to figure out that North Carolina is not the place for her - with all its heat and humidity?
Only when she wakes up, and finds herself in a new situation, like some place in California, it'll all start making sense.
But she refuses to change the present costly and degrading lifestyle and situation. Maybe it's a black thing?
Guys relax I think she got $88 million in cash and she only spent like $10 million for her beloved husband....So she still has plenty left and I am pretty sure she invested something from that already and making money she can't be that stupid
Boyfriend NOT husband!
lol, she "only" spent $10 million on her boyfriend? Lottery winners who think like that will lose it all pretty fast.
Rich people who still treat money like it's valuable will continue to stay rich. Those who suddenly think they no longer have to worry about the value of money are doomed to lose it.
She had Parents: They made her the way she is!
ugh Groppo!!!! You pulled the race card and are suggesting its a "Black" thing? How many black people do you know who won the Powerball lottery and have gotten themselves in this situation? People of ALL races have done ridiculous things all for the sake of love. This situation is sad, regardless of the race of the interested parties. We've all said "Oh, I would never do this or that". Its easy to judge others situations when you are on the surface and don't truly know the full details.
In spite of the fact the guy seems like a bad person because he chose the make money in the 'life', none of us know how he held her down BEFORE she became rich or what drove him to that path. One thing is for certain. The plight of the the black man/woman is one of the most difficult and misunderstood ones out there right now and I am sick of people putting us down without understand those challenges. AND yes Groppo that is a BLACK thing.
Did anyone consider this-When she had nothing before, HE was the only one there for her and stayed with her in spite of her being poor. Now she has money, she is supposed to dump him? Did he start dealing AFTER she won the lottery? I don't know but I suspect not. If she is loyal to him and stayed with him after she won, I have respect for that, regardless of how much it cost her or if its not in-line with society's mainstream value system.
Im just giving another side to it. I would like to think I would have dumped the guy, saved myself millions of dollars and moved on with my life. But thats my life. NONE of us know truly why she choose to stay and keep bailing him out. Please lets not be so quick to call her stupid and judge. We dont know the whole story, just the one the media choses to cover.
OF COURSE SHE WILL pay the fine
, Between the two of them they have one brain cell and they lost that one... In the Immortal words of Forest Gump.... STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES... it is too bad with him gone for a while no more material for the funny pages 
This saga will only get worst. Unbeknownst to many, the notorious gangs on the inside will get her residential information from him ransom him and her and the kids lives if she doesn't pay up. She needs to move, not give out her forwarding information, etc. But jail gangs hearing how readily she gives her money out, will with great determination, seek to cash in.
Unofficially he is her husband it's just not official otherwise I don't think she would spent $10 million for her "boyfriend".....Bf gf is a part time thing but husband wife is not
I wish her well .I would like for to move on and raised her kids thats more important than anything .Instead of using your money for a man thats going to do the same thing when he gets out of jail.
but as I originally stated and caught a lot of flak for saying "she'd be broke inside of 3 years"
b4 congratulating her first
a few things remain obvious :
I wonder which is more important to her ??
I got the same grief you did buddy and here we are now, both laughing, being proven right. You would have to be a blind idiot to not see this coming.
When you love sriracha sauce- nothing else matters. You can put that stuff on & in anything. Soups, burgers,steaks- you name it. It's that good.
OK . I have finally figured it out!
Only Dumb people like Marie Holmes, Cynthia Stafford and the recent Tennessee Powerball Winners can actually Win these Mega-Jackpots!
No one here on LP will ever win, because we are all too smart
I would want to become dumb in order for me to win a Jackpot
"Maybe it's a black thing? "
This is a Racist Remark !!!
The majority of Middle Class White People, Poor White Trash, Blue Collar Caucasians, Latinos, Asians, Indians, and other Minorities also act STUPID after winning Millions of Dollars in the Lottery, b/c they don't know how to handle so much money !!! It's the MONEY, Not the Color of your skin !!!
The only other factors that play into STUPID Behavior is your Psychological State of Mind, and how your individual Life Experience affects you.
STUPID is Color Blind, and does not discriminate based on race, nationality, socio-economic status, age, gender, religion, etc. !!!
You also cannot judge STUPID in the first place, until you walk a mile in STUPID's shoes !!!
Don't drop the soap Hot Sauce!, lol
They had to buy the winning tickets to win, does that mean the players who brought the losing tickets were smarter?
For Her Kids Safety Mainly
Reminds Of That Wizard Of Oz Movie
Where The Scarecrow Sings..."If I Only Had A Brain",lol
Then You Would Only Need "Dumb Luck" To Win The Lottery
No, it's a DUMB thing.
Why do you think they call it "dumb luck"???
As a pro black black man who loves ALL races of people, I have no problem with his comment. I'm sure he's heard of dumb WHITE lottery winners, like Victoria Zell and Jack Whittaker.
It was just a joke.
Rappers have made BILLIONS of dollars using the "N" word and made it fashionable.
When I was in line at the liqour store last week, they were playing some black rapper's song through the store's speakers, where almost every other word was the N word.
Being the only black person in the store, hearing the rapper's continuous use of the N word in the presence of a bunch of white people was embarrassing.
"BLM drug dealers"???
Now this statetment was RACIST because the Black Lives Matter movement does NOT sell drugs.
In my opinion she was just a actress who pretended to win that money and was paid off to do it and also paid off to have these stories written. The type of house she bought doesn't add up to someone who has $50 million. People will believe anything nobody can see that these big jackpots and news releases are as fake as Sandy hook. The next story will be how she filed bankruptcy simply because she never had got that much money anyway. The fools will continue to believe this crap because they want to believe they can win. If you believe this bull you probably still believe the earth is round and spinning very fast. I don't like fools their viruses!! ??????????????
Now she can spend her money and not worry about this douchebag.
Uh, pirate......
It's time to put the crack pipe down.
Once the stuff wears off, you'll be coherent again.
Maybe.....
Bad women are made for bad men and good women are made for good men.
The Virgin Mary was made for Joseph the Carpenter and Bonnie Parker was made for Bonnie and Clyde;
Bad women are made for bad men and good women are made for good men,
Most times, women get the type of man they deserve...that's life.
Golden Hair Guy: Its horrible!! first place, this WOMAN shouldn't get the winning money. she bought the ticket using tax payers money. That money was given to her to feed her children. Its terrible!! i know money. I eat money!!
Vermont old Guy: Let me tell you this, Now you know, why I blame all the 1% of wall street. They keep money to themselves. This woman has almost $200 million and she is spending her money on Govt.every month. she gives 3 million, 6 million, and 12 million, she is a very generous woman. We need more women like that in our society. This is a perfect new social behavior we all should adapt.
Still Hanging!! O-ho guy! this Woman should take the HIGH ROAD if she loves somebody that dearly, she shouldn't take the LOW road spending 3,6,12 million, ..she should.give all her winning money to States. end of the story. don't keep hanging.
No more Emails, text me lady! DOES IT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCES..IF SHE GIVES 3,6, 10 OR 188 MILLION,...WHEN PEOPLE ARE WORKING WITH SLUM LORD..
I hope she sees the light, but I have my doubts.
I wouldn't be surprised if we 1 day read a story here where she is "broke". 
I have a feeling that she is not going to move on, why, because of love. Yes, love, well her love might be the thing between his legs.
MARIE HOLMES, please move on and meet a guy that is not into drugs but into you and your kids!
This woman is a complete disaster period the sooner she loses it all the better off she will be !!! She's a hood rat fir sure
Well, I, as a non-white person, have a big issue with his comment. It was deliberate and it definitely wasn't a joke.
Whether he was simply race-baiting or it was written because he actually believes that his statement was logical, it still isn't funny. How many hundreds of pages on LP have been dedicated to discussing the stupidity of many lottery winners, and most of the people being discussed aren't black. Anyone with an IQ above a double digit would know that stupid lottery winners aren't a white or black issue.
Cherry picking one person just to insult an entire group of people IS racist, made even more so because it was so unnecessary. And frankly, I'm a little fed up with people using the rapper excuse to downplay someone else's bigotry.
Have you noticed that the only time these types of lottery winners see the light is when all the money is gone?
If you take a look at Sharon Tirabassi, Michael Carrol and Callie Rogers, none of them wised up until all they were bankrupt. Then and only then did the light bulb click on. Right now, the only thing working in Marie's favor is that she won such a large sum. She actually has a chance of coming to her senses before everything is gone. Otherwise, we'll have to wait for her to lose it all before that moment of clarity knocks her on the head.
I agree with you Teddi, 100%, well said.
Bad women are made for bad men- state your source? According to the Good Book, Only one woman was truly made for a man, and that was Eve.Not my words but those that are written..
He can drop the soap and still not get hosed, unless of course he is a natural booty-bandit. I bet that girl of his put a lot of money on his books, to purchase commissary and to pay off those monsters that make you perform the pick-up-the-soap routine.
That's the hope. But if she continues to pay large fines, and it continues to go into the government's coffers, where exactly does it end up?
The woman is careless and potentially dangerous.
Yes. "LADY AND THE THUG".
Don't you recognize TRUE love when you see it...
She just keepin' it real.
Real dumb!
According to some reports, the sauce master got all shook up at the attention that was being paid to Ms Holmes bailing him out on a consistent basis. His words to the press were something like " we were together before the win, now that she has the money, why should anything change?" He said if she was in trouble he would do the same thing for her, namely : bail her out."...
Think he has a point?
I think she needs to get rid of this guy and read the book "How to be Invisible" by J.J. Luna, then follow the advice in it and disappear. Considering the sort she was running with, I think kidnapping, extortion, etc. are real possibilities, so she needs to get and stay under the radar.
It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. You seem very intelligent. I think that people often take things too seriously. When he asked, "Maybe it's a black thing?", I immediately thought back to the eighties, when many blacks wore t-shirts with the slogan, "Maybe it's a black thing. You wouldn't understand."
Perhaps that's what inspired him to ask, "Maybe it's a black thing?", because no logical thinking person could understand.
About your being "fed up with people using the rapper excuse to downplay someone else's bigotry", well I don't believe he is a bigot. In this society of different races, genders, and nationalities, we need to be more flexible and stop expecting everyone to be perfect. I am well aware of the history of blacks and natives in this country and I know what MILLIONS of blacks and natives are going through today, but that doesn't excuse the self destructive behavior of black people, such as mass producing illegitimate children half raised in homes without fathers that grow up to commit the majority of violent black on black crime.
My "source" is life itself. Good women tend to stay away from bad men because they have nothing in common, whereas two bad people have a lot to talk about.
That's a lot of time to eat up people who care about the individual's money in lawyer fees and court fees! That is unfair. Isn't it time for North Carolina (and any other state within this country) to set a goal to dole out its sentences within 11 months?
Agreed.
Hard to decide which one of them is dumber. He plays her for the fool. With every print of her name someone will look to cash in on her money. All it will take is a sob story .
You know,
The one thing about her is that North Carolina didn't force her to pay his bail all those times.
I could understand how she might want to one time, but geez, at some point she needs to say enough with throwing my money away.
I have heard of the saying " birds of a feather flock together"- but your " life itself " statement is nothing short of being resplendent . I could have sworn l heard an angel sing...
Lamarr McDowl aka hot sauce (after 7 years in prison) aka sore butt.
About time she dropped that loser.
I for one, do indeed.
But rather than seeing something ridiculous as this story making 'front page news', I'd rather see her bragging to the media about the couple millions she donated to this or that children's hospitals. (ie: St. Jude's; Shriners)
I'm not sure what you mean, rcbbuckeye, because she received all the bail monies back.
It would be wonderful if more people with obscene amounts of money did things like that, those organizations do a lot of good for people that need a lot of help.
Thank you
The last time McDow was arrested, it had been reported Holmes used a bail bondsman. I never read how much she was charged, but I did read that in N. Carolina up to 15% of the bond can be required. That part - whatever she paid the bail agency- wasn't returned.
Also, in your other post you complained about how slowly it took for him to receive his sentence; I don't know for sure, but that very well might have been McDow's lawyers dragging things out by negotiating that plea deal. His sentence might sound harsh, but he actually got a pretty good deal because he could have been sentenced from 18-23 yrs. with a half-million dollar fine and depending upon his past criminal convictions, he might have been classified as a "habitual felon" which carries an even longer sentence, sometimes a life term.
Good Grief!!! I am at a loss for words and for me that's rare!
That was covered in "front page news" also: https://www.lotterypost.com/news/296464
Lottery Post covers ALL LOTTERY NEWS, whether it is good, bad, or neutral.
I mean to say that, for her, it would have been better if instead of the news of her and her boyfriend's issues, that she had never been in that situation, and instead made news by donating to those two hospitals. I'll continue reading whatever news is put up on lotterypost.
Wow!she is a pure idiot!I was so rooting for this girl when she won.She has 4 kids...one is disabled.it would have seemed like the winning would have been a life changing blessing so this chick can change her life completely around.Instead we here stories constantly about her chasing after this dude and bailing him out of jail over and over again!.the sad thing is that she wont change her life,not for the good that is.I shutter at the stories that will come out about her spending her years visiting him in jail and putting some of those millions on the books for this looser.Another Jack Whitaker Story...the title L>O>O>S>E>R
After further information, I see that you were right about him.
My apologies.
$21 million in bonds paid state of nc is winning for real. they was like see if they pay $3 million. Oh you'll pay that. Next time $6million, then double that. hope if was worth it. Spend your money how you wont but after the $3 million YOUR A$$ is staying in jail.
HOPELESS!!!!!!
I agree that thinking in terms of "only $10 million" when deciding to spend your money could be an indication of a problem, but how much a lottery winner spends isn't the important factor in going broke. It's how much they don't spend that matters. As long as you set aside some minimum amount that should ensure a comfortable lifestyle for the rest of your life you won't go broke regardless of how you view the rest of the money.
She's not playing with a full deck... What a waste of money!
Looser or loser? Big difference.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=looser
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, I COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER!!! I remember when she originally WON I thought it couldn't have happened to a more deserving person! Too Bad we don't know what what goes on behind closed doors, How very sad theire are many out there that really need to win enough to be able an buy what they need to live on or a place to live amd every day stuff, they don't win, then PEOPLE like this WIN! REALLY??? Come on already! SO very sad with all that money I'm surprised there both still ALIVE WITH DRUGS BEING INVOLVED!!!!
He was arrested for selling drugs in Nov 2014, she won the lottery in Feb 2015. He didn't sell any drugs since she got the money, a lot of other stupid things but not selling drugs.
I had a feeling we would see her agian in the news.I wonder if it will get through to her he is bad news... walk away. Anyone else thinks she's gonna be on the same list as jack witeacker or David Lee edwards?